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OLIVER, Hugh
(Service number 9/1342)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	01/05/1877	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Tokarahi, New Zealand
Occupation	Miner
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs I. Oliver (wife), Oamaru, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Special Squadrons
Date	14 August 1915
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

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	21 September 1916	Age
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	1.E.13.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Hugh Oliver was the husband of Isabel Oliver, of 15 Mowbray St., Watlington Rd., Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [27 Dec 2013]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R21382219

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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