Claude Napier HARRISON

Regimental number2/1789
Date of birth22 June 1889
Place of birthVictoria, Australia
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationShepherd
AddressMaraekakaho Station, Hawke's Bay
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Height5' 10"
Weight154 lbs
Next of kinSister, Miss T Harrison, Ben Lomond, Maraekakaho Station, Hastings
Previous military serviceServed in No 4 Field Battery, Australian Field Artillery
Enlistment date19 April 1915
Rank on embarkationGunner
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Maunganui on 13 June 1915
Final rankGunner
Final unitNew Zealand Field Artillery
FateDied of disease 15 December 1916
Age at death from cemetery records28
Place of burialWimereux Communal Cemetery (Plot II, Row B, Grave No 7), France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Major James T. and Margaret A. Harrison, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Attached to Temporary Ammunition Column, ANZAC, 13 August 1915.

Taken on strength of 3rd Battery, Zaharich, 9 September 1915.

Embarked, Egypt, and proceeded overseas to France, 6 April 1916.

Admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 10 June 1916 (scabies); rejoined unit, 19 June 1916.

Admitted to Northumberland Casualty Clearing Station, 23 November 1916; transferred to No 2 Australian General Hospital, Wimereux, 11 December 1916 (diabetes); reported 'dangerously ill', No 2 Australian General Hospital, 14 December 1916.

Died of diabetes, No 2 Australian General Hospital, Wimereux, 15 December 1916.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Field Artillery/Fifth
SourcesArchives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805