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COURT, Walter Henry
(Service number 7/1992)

Walter Henry Court — (Waimate Museum & Archives 2002-1026-01692)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Gunner

Birth

Date	17/02/1894	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Farmer, for J Hunt, Waimate
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs G. Court (mother), Waimate, South Canterbury
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	9th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	HMNZT 37 Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez,Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian 1916, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916, Western European 1916-1918
Service Medals	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	25 August 1919	Reason	Termination of his period of engagement

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	29 July 1984	Age
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (8 September 2015); Archives New Zealand, military personnel file

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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