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HURLEY, Mortimer
(Service number 7/1480)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	16th May 1891	Place of Birth	Melbourne

Enlistment Information

Date	1st July 1915	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	Hinds, New Zealand
Occupation	Farm Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	C. Hurley (father), Hinds, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Brown hair, blue eyes, 5ft 9in, 156lb

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	14 August 1915
Transport	SS Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian (1915-1916); Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1916-1918); Bslkan (Gallipoli 1915)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Gallipoli Lapel Badge; Gallipoli Medallion (1967)
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	27th February 1919	Reason	No longer fit for service

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Wounded on 25th September 1918, machine gun wounded in left leg.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph database (10 July 2015); Military personnel file (10 July 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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