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HOLLIS, Henry
(Service number 9/588)

Aliases	Herbert Henry
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	York Place, Dunedin
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs D. RIX (sister), Vogel Street, Dunedin
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

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Post-war Occupations

Soldier

Death

Date	30 April 1920	Age	32 yrs
Place of Death	Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference	Block 71S, Plot 2
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Henry's next-of-kin was his sister, Mrs D. DIX, of Dunedin. His Personnel Record states that he was born in Timaru; the burial records says that he was a native of Australia. Henry married Janet Olive RAINES (Olive) in 1916, in NZ. Olive married John Aloysius McCARTNEY in 1922.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [27 June 2014]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5541 0055950) [27 June 2014]; CWGC [27 June 2014]; Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin headstone image & burial record (Dunedin City Council) [27 June 2014]

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