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GREENFIELD, Joseph Leslie
(Service number 8/129)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	3 January 1890	Place of Birth	Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date	21 August 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- Watson and Co, .Christchurch
Occupation	Traveller for Watson & Co, Christcurch
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	H Greenfield (Father), Temuka
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Hawkes Bay or Ruapehu
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1914-15-16, Egypt 1915, Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915, Western Europe 1916
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	8 August 1942	Age	52
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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