Profile

HARDY, John
(Service number 24102)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Bank Officer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Elizabeth Ann Hardy(mother),Grey's Road,Hastings,NZ
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	13th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion,C Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington NZ	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment 1st 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	28 July 1917	Age
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Died of Wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Trois Arbres Cemetery,Steenwerck,Nord,France
Memorial Reference	I.V.17
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

John Hardy was the son of Mr and Mrs G Hardy,of Fitzroy Avenue,Hastings New Zealand. Mr. J. Hardy and Mr T. McSweeney, on leaving the Bank of New South Wales, were presented with a safety razor and a case of pipes respectively. Mr Hardy is going to Trentham and Mr. McSweeney to the bank in Palmerston North. Timaru Herald Dec 13 1915 (Paperspast)

Sources

Cenotaph Data Base Auckland Museum

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro (SC branch NZSG)

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