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WHETTON, Charles Harold
(Service number 23/2114)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs A.E. Whitton (mother), Bute Street, Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	4th Reinforcements 1st Battalion, E Company
Date	4 March 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st 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	27 May 1917	Age
Place of Death	Messines, Belgium
Cause	Killed in Action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium
Memorial Reference	IV. D. 3.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Charles Whetton was the son of Charles Binning Whetton and Ann E Whetton, of Peel Forest, New Zealand.

Sources

Surname is recorded as Whitton on the Nominal Roll. On Archives New Zealand, CWGC and newspaper citation the surname is Whetton.

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