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WILKES, Oliver George
(Service number 6/2324)

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First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Ealing, Canterbury, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Mrs Elizabeth Wilkes (mother), 5 Buchanan Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date 13 June 1915
Transport Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 22 January 1917 Age 28
Place of Death Messines, Belgium
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Nord, France
Memorial Reference L. 9.
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru South School WWI Memorial plaque (as G Wilkes?); Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Oliver Wilkes was the son of William Riley Wilkes and Elizabeth Florence Wilkes, of 5 Buchanan St., Timaru, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, April 2014

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