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Cecil Herbert Kingston<\/span>I130<\/span>
b: 8 Nov 1885<\/span><\/span>
d: 15 Sep 1916<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/section>
Biography<\/div>
=== EXTRACT FROM wikipedia - Battle of the Somme ===\n Battle of Flers\u2013Courcelette, 15\u201322 September\n Main article: Battle of Flers-Courcelette\n\n The Battle of Flers\u2013Courcelette was the third and final general offensive mounted by the British Army, which attacked an intermediate line and the German third line to take Morval, Lesboeufs and Gueudecourt, which was combined with a French attack on Fr\u00e9gicourt and Rancourt to encircle Combles and a supporting attack on the south bank of the Somme. The strategic objective of a breakthrough was not achieved but the tactical gains were considerable, the front line being advanced by over 2,500\u20133,500 yards (2,300\u20133,200 m) and many German casualties being inflicted. The battle was the d\u00e9but of the Canadian Corps, New Zealand Division and tanks of the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corpson the Somme.[29]\n\n See http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Flers_-_Courcelette\n\n\n === EXTRACT FROM wikipedia - New Zealand Division ===\n The New Zealand Division was a World War I infantry division formed in Egypt in January 1916 following the evacuation of Gallipoli. At the outbreak of war the New Zealand Expeditionary Force contained a single infantry brigade which was combined with the unattached Australian 4th Infantry Brigade to form the New Zealand and Australian Division which served at Gallipoli. By the end of 1915, New Zealand's contingent had expanded such that they could now field a complete division of their own. A second infantry brigade was formed from reinforcements currently in Egypt. A third infantry brigade, the \"Rifle Brigade\", had arrived complete from New Zealand. The New Zealand Division was originally attached to I Anzac Corps and departed for France in April 1916. Bright Williams, who would eventually become New Zealand's oldest living veteran of that war, fought with this division.\n\n http:\/\/nzetc.victoria.ac.nz\/tm\/scholarly\/tei-WH1-NZRi-t1-body-d6-d2-d2.html#WH1-NZRi-fig-WH1-NZRiP016a\n\n === EXTRACT FROM wikipedia - New Zealand Rifle Brigade ===\n Egypt\n\n Two battalions left Wellington on 8 October 1915 eventually arriving in Cairo on 14 November. They were then attached for duties with the Western Frontier Force. They were joined on 13 and 15 March 1916 by the third and fourth battalions. After a period of reorganisation the full brigade left Alexandria on 7 April for France.\n\n France\n\n After a period of training the brigade entered the line on 13 May east of Armentieres. It participated in the vast majority of the battles of 1916, 1917 and 1918. Notable examples include:\n\n The brigade's first major offensive was during the Battle of the Somme when it attacked on 15 September as part of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.\n\n\n === EXTRACT FROM muse.aucklandmuseum.com ===\n Record Detail\n\n Full Name: \tCecil Herbert Kingston\n Rank Last Held: \tRifleman\n Forename(s): \tCecil Herbert\n Surname: \tKingston\n War: \tWorld War I, 1914-1918\n Serial No.: \t24\/1705\n Gender: \tMale\n Place of Birth: \tAustralia\n First Known Rank: \tRifleman\n Occupation before Enlistment: \tLabourer\n Next of Kin: \tC. Kingston (father), Bream Creek, Tasmania\n Body on Embarkation: \tNew Zealand Rifle Brigade\n Embarkation Unit: \t3rd Reinforcements 2nd Battalion, F Company\n Embarkation Date: \t8 January 1916\n Place of Embarkation: \tWellington, New Zealand\n Transport:\n\n HMNZT 38\n HMNZT 39\n\n Vessel: \tTahiti or Warrimoo\n Destination: \tSuez, Egypt\n Nominal Roll Footnotes: \tBorn in Australia.\n Nominal Roll Number: \t16\n Page on Nominal Roll: \t8\n Last Unit Served: \tNew Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion, 3rd\n Place of Death: \tSomme, France\n Date of Death: \t15 September 1916\n Year of Death: \t1916\n Cause of Death: \tKilled in action\n Memorial Name: \tCaterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France\n Biographical Notes: \tCecil Kingston was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kingston, of Bream Creek, Tasmania, Australia.\n Archives NZ source: \tMilitary personnel file\n Sources Used:\n\n Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1917\n Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\n\n === EXTRACTED FROM NZ Army WWI Nominal Rolls 1914-1918 ===\n 2ND BATTALION - (F COMPANY)\n 24\/1705 - Rifleman - Kingston, Cecil Herbert - Labourer - C Kingston (father), Bream Creek, Tasmania\n\n === EXTRACTED FROM NZ Army WWI Casualty Lists ===\n P 568\n Killed In Action\n Non-commissioned officers and men\n\n No: 24\/1705 - Rifleman - Kingston, C. H., - Reported 1\/10\/16 - Casualty List No 418\/33 - Force: 2nd N.Z.R.B.\n\n === Extracted from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ===\n www.cwgc.org\n\n Casualty Details\n Name: \tKINGSTON, CECIL HERBERT\n Initials: \tC H\n Nationality: \tNew Zealand\n Rank: \tRifleman\n Regiment\/Service: \tNew Zealand Rifle Brigade\n Unit Text: \t3rd Bn. 3rd\n Date of Death: \t15\/09\/1916\n Service No: \t24\/1705\n Additional information: \tSon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kingston, of Bream Creek, Tasmania.\n Casualty Type: \tCommonwealth War Dead\n Memorial: \tCATERPILLAR VALLEY (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL\n\n Cecil was issued with a \"Widow's Penny\" as a result of his death. This would also have been issued with a letter from King George but this is not with the penny. The penny was in the posession of Peter Cleeland until his death and passed on to Jason Cleeland when Peter's wife Jan's estate was distributed in July 2011.\n\n Details of Cecil's Burial Place\n ---------------------------------------\n Cemetery Details\n Cemetery: \tCATERPILLAR VALLEY (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL\n Country: \tFrance\n Locality: \tSomme\n Location Information: \tLongueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and 10 kilometres south of Bapaume. The Memorial is situated on a terrace in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, which lies a short distance west of Longueval, on the south side of the road to Contalmaison.\n Historical Information: \tCaterpillar Valley was the name given by the army to the long valley which rises eastwards, past \"Caterpillar Wood\", to the high ground at Guillemont. The ground was captured, after very fierce fighting, in the latter part of July 1916. It was lost in the German advance of March 1918 and recovered by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 28 August 1918, when a little cemetery was made (now Plot 1 of this cemetery) containing 25 graves of the 38th Division and the 6th Dragoon Guards. After the Armistice, this cemetery was hugely increased when the graves of more than 5,500 officers and men were brought in from other small cemeteries, and the battlefields of the Somme. The great majority of these soldiers died in the autumn of 1916 and almost all the rest in August or September 1918. CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY now contains 5,569 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 3,796 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 32 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to three buried in McCormick's Post Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. On 6 November 2004, the remains of an unidentified New Zealand soldier were entrusted to New Zealand at a ceremony held at the Longueval Memorial, France. The remains had been exhumed by staff of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission from Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, France, Plot 14, Row A, Grave 27 and were later laid to rest within the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, at the National War Memorial, Wellington, New Zealand. On the east side of the cemetery is the CATERPILLAR VALLEY (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL, commemorating more than 1,200 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the Battles of the Somme in 1916, and whose graves are not known. This is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known. The memorials are all in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.\n No. of Identified Casualties: \t1205<\/div><\/section>
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