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Ministry for Culture & Heritage of New Zealand (via Public) / First World War Kiwi Officer in Belgium grave identified


04/07/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/06/2021 16:45
First World War Kiwi Officer in Belgium grave identified
News: 7 April 2021
New Zealand Defence Force media release.
The 103-year-old mystery of an unknown New Zealand Army captain buried in a cemetery in Belgium has been solved.
Grave I.E.20 at the Dochy Farm New British Cemetery has been confirmed as the final resting-place of Captain Ernest Charles Parry, 1
st Battalion Auckland Infantry Regiment, who was killed on 6 October, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele. Captain Parry, of Paeroa, is commemorated on the New Zealand Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing and until now, had no known grave. ....

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Resting place of Paeroa captain killed in WWI discovered 103 years later


Captain Ernest Charles Parry, of Paeroa, was killed on October 6, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele.
After 103 years lying unknown in a WWI grave in Belgium, a Paeroa soldier will finally have his name added to his headstone.
And in a further twist to the now-solved mystery of Captain Ernest Charles Parry, it’s been revealed his son also suffered a similar fate with his body also lost in action later in WWII.
The Parry family’s wartime saga of sacrifice and loss comes to light weeks out from Anzac Day thanks to the dogged work of New Zealand Army researchers who combed records to identify his final resting place a world away from his Hauraki hometown. ....

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