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TAVENDALE, William
(Service number 7/132)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Trooper

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Waihao Forks, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin D. Tavendale, Waihao Forks, Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date 16 October 1914
Transport Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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 27 June 1915 Age
Place of Death Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Canterbury Cemetery, Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference I. C. 5.
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Youngest son of James and Jessie Tavendale.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC.

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