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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Samuel Innis

Last name

DANRELL

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

28688
Auckland Regiment, 2nd Battalion

Also known as

Sam

Date of birth

07/09/1895 (as per war service record)

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

31/03/1918

Place of death

Somme, France

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France

Next of kin

Amalie/Amelia Maria Rasmine Ah Sam (nee Paulsen, later Danrell), mother, born Norway
Ching Ah Sam, father, born Canton, China

Additional information

Birth name was Samuel Innis Ah Sam

Died of wounds received in action

Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/35268/samuel-innis-danrell/

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Headstone image source: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/samuel-innis-danrell

Portrait source:
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1541
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1542
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1543
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1548

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