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THOMAS, Alexander Frederick
(Service number 13/465)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	01/03/1892	Place of Birth	Hairini

Enlistment Information

Date	12 August 1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Hairini, New Zealand
Occupation	Farm Hand
Previous Military Experience	C Squadron 4 M R,
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	F.C. Thomas, Paeroa, New Zealand
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information	5 feet 11 inches, Complexion Tanned, Hair Light Brown, Eyes Grey

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Auckland Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Star of India or Waimana
Embarked From	Auckland, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallopli
Service Medals	1914-15 Star
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

Alexandria wounded now reasonably to be supposed dead, on or about 6 August 1915

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	6 August 1915	Age
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Special Memorial D. 41.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru South School WW1 Memorial plaque

Biographical Notes

Son of Frederick Campbell Thomas and Margaret Ann Thomas, of 99, Richmond Rd., Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC.

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