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HEWIT, William
(Service number 6/476)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	04/07/1890	Place of Birth	Coldstream, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Rangitira Valley, Temuka
Occupation	Farm Servant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William Hewit, Kincham Lodge, Coldstream, Scotland
Religion	Presbyterian
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	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Canterbury	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	20 March 1987	Age
Place of Death	Temuka
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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