Profile

EDWARDS, Charles Joseph Knight
(Service number 2/444)

Aliases
First Rank	Gunner	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	08/03/1905	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	8 September 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Victoria Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	H.G. Edwards (Brother), Care of Murray, Roberts, And Co., Wellington, New Zealand
Religion	Church Of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Field Artillery
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Limerick or Arawa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Field Artillery

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards	Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Mentioned In Dispatches (MID) for Gallentry and Dedication to Duty.

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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	10 April 1917	Age	23
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	VII. B.28.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [9/9/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records ( Archives NZ Ref. 2550226 3838 23693873) [11/11/2013];

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Researched and Written by

Patrina Buchanan

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