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KAYE, William
(Service number 29790)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	W. Kaye (father), 5 County Road, Kakorai, Dunedin, New Zealand
Religion
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	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington, New zealand	Destination	Devenport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st 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	6 September 1917	Age	24
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
Memorial Reference	I.F. 17
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial (as W Keye);On Kaikorai School Roll of Honour

Biographical Notes

William Kaye was the son of the late William and Eliza Kaye, of Dunedin, New Zealand

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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