Percy Melville CLOSE

Regimental number33237
OccupationEngine driver
Next of kinWife, Mrs M G Close, 24 Bath Street, Parnell, Auckland
Rank on embarkationPrivate
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 22nd Reinforcements, Specialist Company, Machine Gun Section
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington
Members of the Specialists Company left New Zealand on board three ships(HMNZT 'Mokoia', 13 February 1917; HMNZT 'Navua', 16 February 1917; and HMNZT 'Aparima', 16 February 1917). It is not possible from the Nominal Roll to determine on which ship an individual embarked.
Final rankPrivate
Final unitNew Zealand Machine Gun Corps
FateDied of wounds 13 January 1918
Place of burialButtes New British Cemetery (Plot I, Row C, Grave No 6), Polygon Wood, Belgium
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Wife: Mary Geraldine Close, 24 Bath Street, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 3: Roll 55, p. 23