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WADDELL, William Andrew
(Service number 4/586)

Aliases	Enlisted as William Waddell
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	114 Tancred Street, Linwood, Christchurch
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M. WADDELL, 114 Tancred Street, Linwood, Christchurch
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	New Zealand Field Engineers
Date	16 August 1914
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

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	23 December 1954	Age	59 years
Place of Death	7 Cameron Street, Timaru (residence)
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 24 December 1954)
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 113, Plot 7
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Andrew Waddell was the only son of Andrew Semple and Margaret Bruce (née Leishman).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 November 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [09 November 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [09 November 2016]; Timaru Herald, 24 December 1954 (Timaru District Council) [09 November 2016]

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