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HANSEN, Olaf
(Service number 6/1865)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	02/09/1884	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	110 King Street Timaru NZ
Occupation	Carpenter (THB)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mattias Hansen (Father ), Tonsberg, Norway
Religion	Lutheran
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington NZ	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Balkans (Gallipoli)
Service Medals
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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	13 August 1915	Age
Place of Death	Gallipoli Turkey
Cause	Died of Wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lancashire Landing Cemetery Cape Helles, Turkey
Memorial Reference	K. 30.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Sources

Nominal Rolls of NZ Expeditionary Force Volume 1.Wellington: Govt. Printer 1914-1919 Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Cenotaph Data Base Auckland Museum

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro (SC branch NZSG), David Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum

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