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WORNER, Alfred
(Service number 14727)

Aliases Enlisted as Alfred Warner Helem
First Rank Sergeant Last Rank

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Ohutu, New Zealand
Occupation Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Peter Dunbar Helem (father), Ohutu, 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 5th Reinforcements 4th Battalion, H Company
Date 26 June 1916
Transport Tahiti 
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Devenport, England
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 13 August 1917 Age
Place of Death Ypres, Belgium
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial; Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion plaque

Biographical Notes

Alfred was the son of Frederick William and Florence May Worner (nee Helem), one of the couple's nine children. When only one year of age his father died, so he went to live and was raised by his mother's borther, Peter Dunbam Helem and his wife. As a reuslt when he enlisted he did so under the surname Helem and gave his parents as Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dunbar Helem of Ohutu, Rangitikei.

Two of his brothers, Alexander and George Worner, also served in the war and all three were killed in action.

Sources

Cenotaph (12 August 2013)

External Links

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Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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