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NIALL, George Patrick
(Service number 6/521)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	07/02/1885	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	17 August 1914	Age	29
Address at Enlistment	18 Buchanan Street, Timaru
Occupation	Labourer for P. O'Hagan
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	G.Niall (brother), 102 Grafton Rd, Auckland & Miss A Niall, C.- Mrs J. Kerr, 18 Lomes Rd, Papanui, Christchurch
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	5ft 8in, 164lbs, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair

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 and Gallipoli
Service Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914-1915 Star
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	7 September 1916	Reason	No longer physically fit on account of wounds received in action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Gunshot wounds to mouth - permanent disbility

Post-war Occupations

Carrier

Death

Date	30 May 1954	Age	69 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 95, Plot 92
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Patrick Niall was the son of Daniel William and Noah (née Carroll) Niall. He married Esther Davidson on 27 December 1920. His brother Gerald Hugh Niall, who was nominated as his next-of-kin, also served in World War I. Brother Thomas Niall was called up for service. Corporal Niall, who had been severely wounded, was warmly welcomed home in February 1916 by the Timaru Hibernian Society. Five times he had gone out to bring in wounded comrades, The fifth time he was hit by a bullet which took away part of his jaw-bone. [Timaru Herald, 16 February 1916\

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 February 2018 & August 2021]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [18 February 2018]Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [20 February 2018]; Timaru Herald, 16 February 1916 (Papers Past) [18 February 2018]; Assorted records at Ancestry.com [August 2021]

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Researched and Written by

Sahiban Kanwal; Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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