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HOULIHAN, William Patrick
(Service number 6/1876)

Aliases
First Rank	(1) Private; (2) Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12/08/1886	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Middle Street, Timaru
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Catherine HOULIHAN (mother), Middle Street, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) 4th Reinforcements; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) Canterbury Infantry Battalion; (2)New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, Maheno, Proceeding to England for Artificial Limbs
Date	(1) 17 April 1915; (2) 6 May 1916
Transport	(1) Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitome; (2) Maheno (Hospital Ship No. 1, 3rd Voyage from New Zealand
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	(1) Suez, Egypt; (2) England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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	21 August 1932	Age	47 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Patrick HOULIHAN was the son of James and Catherine (nee WALSH) HOULIHAN.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [16 December 2014]

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