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WILLIAMS, Aubrey Lewis
(Service number 4/193a)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	26 April 1880	Place of Birth	Wellington

Enlistment Information

Date	14 November 1914	Age	34 years 6 months
Address at Enlistment	Wellington
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience	Battalion Auckland NZ
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Harold W. WILLIAMS (brother), ...., Petrograd, Russia
Religion
Medical Information	height 5 feet 8 inches. Weight 11 stone 1 lb. Chest 36 inches, expansion 1¾ inches. Vaccinated - as a child & 10 years ago. Good physical development. No martks indicating congenital pecularities or previous disease. No slight defects. .

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZFE
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZE

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian; Balkan; Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Western European
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	31 August 1917	Reason	Struck off strength.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	22 July 1961	Age	81 years
Place of Death	Porirua
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Karori Crematorium, Wellington
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Aubrey Lewis Williams was the third of the seven sons of Rev. William James and Alice Mary (née Hosking) Williams, of Sumner, Christchurch. He was educated at Timaru Main School, when his father was the Wesleyan minister at the Bank Street Church in Timaru; having come fron East Christchurch School and leaving Main to go to Auckland in 1891. Five of his brothers served in World War One - Bertram Victor who was killed in action in 1917 at Messines, Hugh Hoskyn, Owen Wallis, Sydney Lory, and the oldest, Harold, who was a wa scorrespondent.

Sources

NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5557 0122602) [05 May 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [March 2014]; Evening Post, 19 November 1914, Southland Times, 11 August 1916, Press, 12 August 1916, Auckland Star, 3 October 1916 (Papers Past) [06 May 2016; 04 & 05 May 2017]

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