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HEWITT, John
(Service number 29781)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	10 Sept 1895	Place of Birth	St Bathans, Otago

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	grocer - Irvine Stevenson
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Mrs E Hewitt (mother) 288 King Street, Dunedin
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	18th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date	16 October 1916
Transport	HMNZT 66, Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, D COmpany

Military Awards

Campaigns
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	24 November 1917	Age	22
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	I.A.19
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of the late James Hewitt and Elizabeth McCombe (previously Hewitt). Mrs McCombe lived at 38 Williams Street, Timaru

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Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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