Profile

HANLEY, Michael Joseph
(Service number 53864)

First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	28/06/1883	Place of Birth	Morven

Enlistment Information

Date	16 December 1916	Age	33
Address at Enlistment	Morven, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Miss Mary Hanley (sister), The Point, Morven, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements F Company
Date	13 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	France
Service Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal

Discharge

Date	27 February 1919	Reason	No longer physically fit due to illness occurred on active servce

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Gun shot wound to left leg, scabies, and Chronc Plumonary Disease

Death

Date	8 December 1945	Age	62
Place of Death	Temuka
Cause
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Row 231 Plot 2
New Zealand Memorials	St Patrick's (Waimate) Memorial list (June 2015)

Biographical Notes

Michael was the son of Patrick and Margaret Hanley

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (May 2015); Archives New Zealand; New Zealand BDM Historical Records online; Paperspast

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum); Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

Tell us more

Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!