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HUTCHINS, William Hurford
(Service number 6/483)

Aliases	Walter on Cenotaph Database
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	19th March 1888	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	2nd August 1914	Age	26
Address at Enlistment	Waimataitai, Timaru
Occupation	Slaughterman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Albert Hutchins, Waimataitai, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	Light Brown hair, grey eyes, height: 5ft 8in

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 4 Tahiti or HMNZT 11 Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian (1914-1915); Balkan (Gallipoli 1915)
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	21 March 1916	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Injured spine on 8th May 1915

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	19 September 1965	Age	77 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Block 36/310
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Cenotaph Database [18 June 2014]; Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch burial record (Christchurch City Council) [06 August 2014]

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Saray Sedeno

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