Profile

ELLEN, William Richard
(Service number 23/415)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	16/10/1884	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	29 May 1915	Age	30
Address at Enlistment	Paynstown, Waimate
Occupation	Tailor
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M. Ellen (mother), Waimate
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	1st New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	B Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, 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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	19 February 1965	Age	81
Place of Death	Waimate
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Cemetery
Memorial Reference	RSA Block 16 Plot 16
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Mary Ellen.

William arrived in Suez in November 1915. He was admitted to hospital in February 1916 with severe enteric dystentery and was sent back to NZ in March 1916 where he was discharged in May 1916.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); NZ Births, Deaths, and Marirages at https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/; Archives New Zealand

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG; Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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