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GODFREY, Joseph Frederick William
(Service number 10/4459)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	09/09/1896	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Kaikoura
Occupation	Musterer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs F. Godfrey (mother), 5 London Street, Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand
Religion
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	11th Reinforcements Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company
Date	1 April 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

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	22 July 1916	Age	19
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France
Memorial Reference	II. F. 48.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Joseph Godfrey was the son of Frederick and Frances I. Godfrey, of 192 Dixon St., Masterton, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R16786805 - digitised0.

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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