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OLDFIELD, Eldred Charles
(Service number 18295)

Aliases
First Rank	Gunner	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	F. R. OLDFIELD (father), Seadown, via Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

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	22nd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery
Date	16 February 1917
Transport	Aparima
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Injury - lost right leg

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	11 April 1951	Age	56 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 12 April 1951
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 40, Plot 764
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Eldred Charles Oldfield was the son of Frederick Richard Oldfield and his wife Frances Mary née Hawke. Eldred attended several schools - Temuka, Seadown, Waimataitai, and back to Temuka. His brother Jack also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 November 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [11 November 2016]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [11 November 2016]

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