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HERTSLET, Charles Henry Orbell
(Service number 13295)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	15/07/1893	Place of Birth	Lower Hutt

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Box 22, Waimate, South Canterbury
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	H. HERTSLET (father), Adendale, Waimate
Religion	Church of England
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	New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Mounted Rifles

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	23 July 1977	Age	85 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference	returned Services Division
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Henry Orbell Hertslet was the son of Harry Neville and Mary Hertsle.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 December 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 February 2017]; Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [21 December 2017]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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