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HARDWICK, William Rodgers
(Service number 23/1066)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31/07/1893	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Maori Hill, Timaru
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	George Edwin HARDWICK (father), Maori Hill, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	1st Battalion, D Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Draper

Death

Date	24 May 1879	Age	86 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimairi Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Block AN63, Plot 8
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Rodgers Hardwick was the son of George Edwain and Emma Beatrix (née Davies) Hardwick. He attended Union Street School, Dunedin. He reurned to New Zealand in March 1919 per the Willochra. In 1922 he married Mary McDonald Elliott.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) 14 December 2018]; Waimairi Cemetery record (Christchurch City Council) [15 December 2018]; Timaru Herald, 5 March 1919 (Papers Past) [14 December 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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