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WITHELL, John Willet
(Service number 77039)

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Birth

Date 7 July 1891 Place of Birth Tai Tapu, Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Ealing
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin J. WITHELL (father), Otipua, Timaru
Religion Methodist
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 42nd Reinforcements, D Company
Date 1 August 1918
Transport Tofua
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date *1967 Age
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Willet Withell was the son of John and Sarah Box (née Perryman) Withell. He was farming with his father at otipua before the war. John married Mary Findlay Howie in 1922. J. W. Withell embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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