Ernest Taylor Chadwick (1892 - 1918)

Born 28 Apr 1892 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 29 Aug 1918 at age 26 in Bapaume, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France

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Ernest Taylor Chadwick is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Biography

Ernest Taylor was born in 1892. He was the son of Harry Taylor Chadwick and Cordelia Boult. He passed away in 1918 age 26. ^[1]

CHADWICK. — On August 29, 1918, killed in action " Somewhere in France," Lance-corporal Ernest Taylor Chadwick (5th Reinforcements), only son of H. T. Chadwick and Cordelia Chadwick, 63 Grosvenor street, Kensington, Dunedin; aged 26 years. —Melbourne papers please, copy. ^[2]

Ernest Taylor Chadwick (Service number 4/939 ) served in the NZ Army durinh World War 1. He was a Second Corporal with the New Zealand Engineers . A carpenter in civilian life, he gave his next of kin as H.T. Chadwick (father), of 62 Walker Street, Dunedin, He embarked aboard HMNZT 24 or HMNZT 25 or HMNZT 26 the Vessels Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima to Suez, Egypt . He enlisted as a Sapper in the New Zealand Field Engineers 5th Reinforcements . He was Killed in Action, 29 August 1918 in Bapaume, France and is buried at the Beaulencourt British Cemetery, in Ligny-Thilloy, Pas-de-Calais, France(grave reference III. G. 4 ) He was possibly the husband of Mrs. E. T. Chadwick, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
   • NZ Death registration 1918/67799
2. ↑ Otago Daily Times, Issue 17431, 27 September 1918
3. ↑ Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum