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SQUIRE, William Lilienthal
(Service number 47369)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	30/06/1887	Place of Birth	Cave

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Maungati, Timaru
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	George Wood Squire (father), 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	26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	9 June 1917
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination	Devonport, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
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PoW Serial Number
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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	28 March 1968	Age	80 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 126, Plot 5
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Lilienthal Squire was the son of George and Marie Magdalene Mathilda Karoline (née Lilienthal) Squire. His brother Gustave Wood Squire also served in World War One, and another brother, Edwin Frederick Squire enlisted. .He married Lilian Boswell on 5 July 1915.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [02 January 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [02 January 2017]

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