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WILCOCKS, George Hedley
(Service number 3/3829)

Aliases Perhaps surname should be WILCOX. Birth registered as George Hedley WILLCOCK. Enlisted as George WILCOCKS
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Private

Birth

Date 21/12/1890 Place of Birth Smithfield, South Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Milburn, Otago
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin George WILCOCKS (father), Milburn, Otago; later Goodwood, Palmerston South,
Religion Church of England
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 35th Reinforcements, Field Ambulance
Date 21 February 1918
Transport Moeraki
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Medical Corps

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

Farmer, driver, labourer, woolscour worker

Death

Date 3 November 1963 Age 72 years
Place of Death Winchester
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference Services Section, Row 170, Plot 641
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Hedley Willcocks was the eldest son of New Zealand born George Wilcock (name at marriage) and his wife, Welsh-born Emily née Davis, George and Emily having married in 1888 at Geraldine. George was educated at variously Springbrook, Esk Valley, Kohika and Temuka schools. He was listed firstly on the Reserve Roll, at the time living at Milburn,probably with his parents. In 1925 he married Catherine Daly. While George is buried at Temuka in a serviceman's plot, Catherine is buried at Gore in a Daly plot. George's brother Frederick also served in World War I. On 26 August 1920 over two hundred people gathered at Esk Valley to do honour to the ex-pupils of the school who had served in the war. A monument which had been erected by the efforts of ex-pupils to the memory of their fallen schoolmates, was unveiled. The “Roll,” arranged by Mrs Smithson and presented by her to the school, consists of thirty-eight photographs of the boys who had left for the war. Underneath each is inscribed his name and reinforcement. In a central oval are the Union Jack and New Zealand flags, with the inscription: “For King and Country, 1914-1918.” Included in the names is that of G. Wilcox. George's brother Frederick Leopold Wilcox also served in World War I.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 February 2018]; NZBDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 February 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury & Waimate branches NZSG) [10 February 2018]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [10 February 2018]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [12 February 2018]; Timaru Herald, 31 August 1920 (Papers Past) [06 February 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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