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SEWARD, William Henry
(Service number N/N; 86595)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	5 November 1878	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. One child
Next of Kin	Mrs Millicent Marie SEWARD (wife), 19 Summerhays Street, Palmerston North
Religion	Christadelphian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

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Prisoner of War Information

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Death

Date	1 June 1946	Age	66 years
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Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Karori Cemetery, Wellington
Memorial Reference	Block BJ, Row 9, Plot
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Henry Seward was born in 1878 at Timaru, the son of William Henry and Elizabeth Esther (née Dart) Seward. He married Millicent Marie Hosking on 6 May 1911 at Wellington, Their child Rene was born on 15 November 1912 at Christchurch. Another child, Myra, was born in 1914 and died later that year at 5 months of age.

Sources

Karori Cemetery, Wellington, headstone transcription [26 March 2017]

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