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HAY, David Ritchie
(Service number 6/2158)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12 June 1890	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- R. Frisby, Willowby; Canterbury
Occupation	Farm Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Henry Hay (uncle), c/- J. Hay , Morven
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Balkans (Gallipoli), Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Western Europe
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	14 December 1961	Age
Place of Death	Ashburton
Cause
Notices	Internal Affairs Notification, Military personnel file
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

David Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum

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