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Final rank:

Lance Corporal

First name/s

Harry Cuthbert

Last name

NORTHCROFT

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

13/110
Auckland Mounted Rifles

Also known as

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Date of birth

22/02/1889

Place of birth

Thames, New Zealand

Date of death

19/05/1915

Place of death

Gallipoli, Turkey

Death registration number

NZ1918/37080 (post war death registration)

Headstone/grave location

Walker's Ridge Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey (Gallipoli)

Next of kin

Henry William Northcroft (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Margaret Northcroft (mother)

Additional information

Enlisted 14 August 1914 into the Auckland Mounted Rifles. On enlistment his occupation was recorded as solicitor. Embarked from New Zealand 13 October 1914 and disembarked Suez 3 December 1914. Killed in action at Gallipoli 19 May 1915.

Living with his parents in Rarotonga at the time of his enlistment. His father, Henry William Northcroft was the resident magistrate and the Chief Justice and Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands between 1913 and 1915.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4041307/harry-cuthbert-northcroft/

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Headstone image source: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/harry-cuthbert-northcroft

Harry Cuthbert Northcroft. The Kiwi: Official Organ of the Auckland University College, 11, 1916. NZGC 378.95 K62, Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services

Commemorative certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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