Informationen zu Geburt

Geburtsdatum:
29/09/1892
Geburtsort:
Salt Water Creek Kaiapoi, New Zealand

Allgemeine Informationen

Beruf:
Landwirt / Bauman / Ökonom

Informationen zum Armeedienst

Land:
New Zealand
Truppe:
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Private
Dienstnummer:
29265
Einheiten:
 —  Canterbury Regiment, 3rd Bn.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Informationen zu Tod

Sterbedatum:
16/12/1917
Sterbeort:
Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgien
Todesursache:
Im Kampf gefallen
Alter:
25

Begräbnisplatz

Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood
Grabstelle: IX
Reihe: AA
Grab: 16

Auszeichnungen und Orden 2

British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Punkte von Interesse 2

#1 Geburtsort
#2 Ort des Todes (ungefähr)

Meine Geschichte

Private James Frederick Lang served in the Canterbury Regiment, Third Battalion, 4th New Zealand Brigade. He was the son of Frederick and Isabella Lang, of Saltwater Creek, Canterbury, New Zealand.

After the Third Battle of Ypres the New Zealand Division held the line in and around Polygon Wood. In early December the Division wanted to improve its positions and tried to take the heights round Polderhoek Chateau. The Division’s battalions relieved each other in the Polygon Wood sector, the main work being improving defenses, repairing trenches and wire. The landscape was water-filled shell holes. The Germans had observation over much of the area so any movement was shelled or machine-gunned.

The 2nd Brigade was replaced by the 4th Brigade on the night of 15/16 December; In this, the 3rd Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment replaced the 1st Canterbury. It was during this period that James Frederick was killed, on the 16th of December 1917, aged 25. He is now in a special memorial grave at Buttes New British Cemetery at Polygon Wood, Plot IX, Row AA, Grave 16.

Dateien 1

Quellen 6

"The history of the Canterbury Regiment N.Z.E.F. : 1914-1919", Ferguson D., Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921, page 218 - 223
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auckland cenotaph
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C8517?n=Lang%2029265&ordinal=0&from=%2Fwar-memorial%2Fonline-cenotaph%2Fsearch
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CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480328/lang,-james-frederick/
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NZ project
https://nzef.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=143195
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Service Records
https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/666087
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The long,long Trail
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army
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