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HURDLEY, Henry Irvine
(Service number 4/753)

Aliases
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	8th May 1994	Place of Birth	Springston

Enlistment Information

Date	14th February 1915	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	26 Falsgrove Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation	Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Hurdley (father), P.O. Box 163, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	Black hair, blue eyes, 5ft 6in, 133lb

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	NZ Engineers
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements;14th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Field Engineer;New Zealand Engineers
Date	17 April 1915; 26 June 1916
Transport	HMNZT 56 Tahiti or HMNZT 57 Maunganu
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyption (1915); Balkan (Gallipoli 1915); Western European (1918)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Gallipoli Lapel Badge; Gallipoli Medallion (1967)
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	24 May 1919	Reason	No longer fit for service

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Was giving a extended sick leave period from 30th December 1915 to 26th of January 1916 for futher medical attention.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	10 April 1980	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph database (9 July 2015); Military personnel file (9 July 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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