William Thomas Faull

William Thomas Faull, a cheese-maker, enlisted on 28 May 1915, being accepted on condition that he allowed "his teeth to be fixed". He embarked from New Zealand for Egypt on 9 October 1915 and later left for France. As a rifleman in the Third Battalion, Otago Regiment, he suffered a gunshot wound to his right shoulder during the battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916, the first day that the New Zealand Division was involved in a Western Front attack after its "blooding" at Gallipoli. It was also the first day that tanks were deployed in the war. William Thomas Faull was later admitted to Brockenhurst hospital in Hampshire, England, from where he was discharged on 17 October 1916. After further convalescence, he returned to France on 15 May 1917 and died on 17 October 1917, aged 24, in the Passchendaele battle near Ypres; he has no known grave but is commemorated on panel 3, N.Z. Apse, at the Tyne Cot memorial to the missing. Source: Bob Anderson http://www.bobanderson.co.uk/mccauleyfull/?rq=sarah%20ann%20ford

• Rank: Private
• Service No: 24/417
• Date of Death: 17/10/1917
• Age: 24
• Regiment/Service: Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 3rd Bn.
• Panel Reference: N.Z. Apse, Panel 3.
• Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
• Additional Information: Son of Elizabeth Ann Faull (now Foreman), of Ward St., Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Napier, and the late William Faull. Native of Kaponga, Taranaki. His brother Henry James also fell.

Links:

• Cenotaph Record
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record
• New Zealand War Graves Record