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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

External Links

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph record

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum

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