REMEMBERED WITH HONOUR
Full Name :
Cecil Matthews Kivell
Rank Last Held :
Sergeant
Forename(s) :
Cecil Matthews
SURNAME :
Kivell
WAR :
World War I, 1914-1918
SERIAL NO :
25/203
FIRST KNOWN RANK :
Rifleman
OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT :
Hairdresser
NEXT OF KIN :
Mrs Malvinia Ann Kivell (mother), Fenton Street , Stratford , New Zealand
BODY ON EMBARKATION :
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
EMBARKATION UNIT :
3rd Battalion, B Company
EMBARKATION DATE :
5 February 1916
PLACE OF EMBARKATION :
Wellington , New Zealand
TRANSPORT(S) :
• HMNZT 42
• HMNZT 43
• HMNZT 44
VESSEL :
Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua
DESTINATION :
Suez , Egypt
NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER :
24
PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL :
8
LAST UNIT SERVED :
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
PLACE OF DEATH :
Ypres , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH :
12 October 1917
AGE AT DEATH :
22
YEAR OF DEATH :
1917
CAUSE OF DEATH :
Killed in action
CEMETERY NAME :
Dochy Farm New British Cemetery , Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-Vlaanderen , Belgium
GRAVE REFERENCE :
V.D.28.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES :
Son of Henry and Malvinia Kivell, of 21 McVay Street , Napier , New Zealand .
:
Also served in Egypt .
DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE :
Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1918
ARCHIVES NZ SOURCE :
Military personnel file
FURTHER REFERENCES :
See also Kivell, Eric Henry. Papers. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 918 - contains photographs of C.M. Kivell and his brother Eric H. Kivell.
SOURCES USED :
Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington : Govt. Printer, 1917
25 Battery - B Company