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WILKES, Oliver George
(Service number 6/2324)

Pte Oliver George Wilkes — (Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 8 March 1917, p.45 )

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Timaru South School Memorial plaque, 2010 — Mounted on a brick pillar at the School's front gate (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
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

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	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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