Edward Templer POULTON 851 - ashes memorial [top row with poppy]

Edward Templer POULTON

N.Z. ROUGH RIDERS. No.851.

Died 13th AUGUST 1943

“AND LOVE LIVES ON”

 

 

1 year 99 days service overseas

Very good character

Awarded:

South Africa Medal and 1900 & 1901 clasps

Johannesburg ‘Diamond Hill’

Cape Colony Orange Free State

 

 

Attested: Napier, 5 February 1900

Next of Kin: James Arthur POULTON [brother]

Address: Opawa, Canterbury

 

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 11 April 1901, Page 4

Newspaper article mentioning coming home from war

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...

 

January 1903 he was living at Onga Onga

 

1934 connections with the church as Synodsman

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...

 

 

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22149, 1 July 1935, Page 12

“Mr and Mrs E.T. Poulton (Takapuna) will remain in London for a few weeks before leaving on a round of country visits.”[2]

 

His Cenotaph database record:

muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/126062.detail?...

 

 

His military records are viewable online:

ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServle...

 

Note that he was adamant his service number was 851 [letter in his military files] however 850 seems also attributed to him.

 

 

Edward married Marjory Jean ANTILL c1919. Marriage registration 1919/1463 [1]

 

 

SOURCES:

[1]

NZ Dept Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes

[2]

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...

 

 

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