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FIELDING, George Alfred
(Service number 43336)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank

Birth

Date 23/12/1891 Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Jockey
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs M. Fielding (mother), 18 Dee Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 27th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles
Date 31 May 1917
Transport Westralia; then transhipped to "Port Lincoln" at Sydney for Suez
Embarked From Wellington Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With 11 Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles
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

Death

Date 5 September 1973 Age
Place of Death Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Taieri Cemetery
Memorial Reference Block Z. Plot 114
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Mary and Frederick Fielding.

George's brothers Walter Charles and Frederick Fielding also served in the war.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 August 2018]; SCRoll web submission by R Evans, 12 August 2020

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Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum

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