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PHINIX, Angelo
(Service number 52538)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	18 July 1892	Place of Birth	Auckland

Enlistment Information

Date	21 March 1917	Age	24 years
Address at Enlistment	Criterion Hotel, Waimate
Occupation	Telegraph clerk (P. and T. Department)
Previous Military Experience	P & T Corps, Waimate
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mr Joseph PHINIX (father) st George's Bay Road, Parnell, Auckland
Religion	Roman Catholic
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	29th Reinforcements, Specialists company, Signal Section
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	21 July 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Telegraph clerk; citrus grower

Death

Date	27 August 1972	Age	80 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland
Memorial Reference	Block M, Row 13, Plot 63
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 February 2025]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [01 March 2025]; Waimate Daily Advertiser, 13 March 1917, 7 April 1917, Timaru Herald, 14 March 1917, 10 April 1917, Auckland Star, 1 June 1918 (Papers Past) [07 January 2015; 01 March 2025]; Waikumete Cemetery record (Auckland Council) [01 March 2025]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC Genealogy Society

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