Cemetery: Messines Ridge (N.Z.) Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: Mesenwest-Vlaanderen
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Official Number: 8/1976,
Unit: 1st Bn. Otago Regiment N.Z.E.F..
Country of Service: New Zealand
Details: Killed in action 7th June 1917. Age 29. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Filtness of 63 Oakfield Rd. Ilford Essex England. His brother William Edward also fell.
Photograph by Jean-Michel Van Elslande/David Milborrow