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Topic: Albert Oliver Marquet

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Albert Oliver Marquet was a First World War soldier with links to Sumner.

Private A.O. Marquet was born 31^st December, 1890.  He was the eldest of six children born to parents Albert and Alice Marquet.   The family lived in Monck’s Bay, Redcliffs and Albert is recorded as working as a wool classer.   Private Marquet enlisted on 22^nd August, 2016 and departed for Devonport on 19^th January, 1917 as a member of the NZ Expeditionary Force, Wellington Infantry Regiment in the Signals Division.  Private Marquet arrived in England on the 28^th March, 2017 and departed for France on the 13^th August, 2017.  He joined his battalion on 29^th August, 2017.

Private Albert Marquet was wounded on the 19^th October, 2017 at Flanders Field in France.  He died of the wounds he sustained on 23^rd October, 2017.  He is buried in the Nine Elms British Cemetery, Popeninge, West-Vlaanderen, Belguim.  V.I.D. 15.

Related Resources:

Online Cenotaph record for Albert Oliver Marquet Auckland War Memorial Museum

http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C10353?n=Albert%20Oliver%20Marquet&ordinal=0&from=%2Fwar-memorial%2Fonline-cenotaph%2Fsearch

ROLL OF HONOUR Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16380, 1 November 1917

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19171101.2.21?end_date=31-12-1917&query=Albert+Oliver+Marquet&start_date=01-01-1889&title=AMBPA%2CAG%2CEG%2CGLOBE%2CLT%2CNCGAZ%2COO%2CCHP%2CSCANT%2CTS%2CSUNCH%2CTEML%2CTHD%2CWDA