Profile

SQUIRE, Albert Henry
(Service number 20442)

Commemorative medal, Albert Squire — "A Token Of Honour" from "Hunter Friends" to Private A H Squire, recognising his service in the Great War (South Canterbury Museum X 359.8)

Commemorative medal, Albert Squire (verso engraving) — "A Token Of Honour" from "Hunter Friends" to Private A H Squire, recognising his service in the Great War (South Canterbury Museum X 359.8)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	29/06/1889	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Raetihi
Occupation	Bushman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs M. R. SQUIRE (mother), Bourndale, Makikihi, Timaru
Religion
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	16th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company
Date	21 August 1916
Transport	Mokoia
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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

Farmer

Death

Date	3 June 1971	Age	82 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Salisbury Park Crematorium, Timaru
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Albert Henry Squire was the son of Henry and Martha Rebecca (née Ford) Squire. His brother Francis John Squire also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 December 2016]; Salisbury Park Crematorium, Timaru, plaque transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [02 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [02 January 2017]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

Tell us more

Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!