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HANSEN, Carl William
(Service number 11879)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	15/08/1888	Place of Birth	Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date	12 November 1915	Age	27 years 8 months
Address at Enlistment	Geraldine
Occupation	Flax cutter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs C. HANSEN (mother), Peel Street, Geraldine
Religion	Protestant
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 7 inches. Weight 148 lbs. Chest measurement 31½-36 inches. Complexion fair. Eyes blue. Hair dark. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing and colour vision both good. Limbs well formed. Full and perfect movement of joints. Chest well formed. Heart and lungs normal. Teeth good. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily and mental health. No slight defects. No fits. No distinctive marks or marks indicating congenital peularities ro previous disease.

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	12th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury 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	22 November 1917	Reason	No longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Flax cutter; fisherman

Death

Date	13 January 1982	Age	93 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Block 1E, Plot 109
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Carl William HANSEN was born in 1888 at Geraldine, New Zealand, the son of Mathai (Matthias) Christian and Caroline (née PETERSON) HANSEN. Mathai and Caroline had married in their homeland, Denmark, in about 1875-1878. Sometime between 1880 and 1886 they settled, with several children, in the Geraldine area. There several more children were born, including Carl William. Carl returned to New Zealand in 1917 per the "Marama". In 1924 Carl William Hansen married Mary GILLUM, formerly the wife of his brother Frederick. By 1946 he had married Ivy Irene, and by her he had one daughter and two sons. This Carl was an uncle of Carl Christian HANSEN who also served in World War One. Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch, burial record (Christchurch City Council) [11 September 2015]; NZ Electoral rolls (ancestry.com.au) [10 & 11 September 2015]

Sources

Cenotaph Database [10 September 2015]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5539 0050249) [11 September 2015]; Timaru Herald, 2 October 1916, 12 December 1916, 29 August 1917, 4 February 1918, Evening Post, 30 September 1916, Otago Daily Times, 2 October 1916, New Zealand Herald, 2 October 1916, Press, 9 December 1916, 3 March 1923, Dominion, 9 December 1916 (Papers Past) [10, 11 &12 September 2015]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [10 September 2015]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 September 2015]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [10 & 11 September 2015]; Ruru Cemetery, Christchurch, burial record (Christchurch City Council) [11 September 2015]; Ruru Cemetery, Christchurch, headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG Cemetery records microfiche) [11 September 2015]

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