Arnold Wilfred Paget

FULL NAME Arnold Wilfred Paget

RANK LAST HELD Sapper

FORENAME(S) Arnold Wilfred

SURNAME Paget

WAR World War I, 1914-1918

SERIAL NO. 4/2118

GENDER Male

FIRST KNOWN RANK Sapper

OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT Railway porter

NEXT OF KIN Mrs Paget (mother), West Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand

BODY ON EMBARKATION New Zealand Expeditionary Force

EMBARKATION UNIT 11th Reinforcements New Zealand Field Engineers, No. 1 Field Company

EMBARKATION DATE 1 April 1916

PLACE OF EMBARKATION Wellington, New Zealand

TRANSPORT HMNZT 49, HMNZT 50

VESSEL Maunganui or Tahiti

DESTINATION Suez, Egypt

NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER 28

PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL 25

LAST UNIT SERVED New Zealand Engineers

PLACE OF DEATH Belgium

DATE OF DEATH 14 June 1917

AGE AT DEATH 24

YEAR OF DEATH 1917

CAUSE OF DEATH Died of wounds

CEMETERY NAME Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France

GRAVE REFERENCE III. D. 5.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Son of William and Mary Paget, of Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Annie Paget, of 35, New St., Brightlingsea, Essex, England

DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917

ARCHIVES NZ SOURCE Military personnel file

NZETC New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page

SOURCES USED Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1917 Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org