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HOUSTON, Hillis
(Service number 76573)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	21/10/1887	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Shamrock Hotel, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Miss A. HOYLE (friend), care of Dominion Hotel, 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	40th Reinforcements, E Company
Date	10 July 1918
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

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

Death

Date	24 March 1962	Age	76 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 123, Plot 11
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Hillis Houston was the third son of David and Mary Matilda (née Crawford) Houston. Hillis attended Timaru Main School. His brother Robert John Houston was killed in action in 1916, and another brother, David Kyle Houston, also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [31 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [30 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [30 December 2016]

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