Profile

HAMLYN, Joshua Gordon
(Service number 6/4257)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	28/09/1895	Place of Birth	Invercargill

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Selwyn Street, Timaru
Occupation	Draper
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	J. HAMLYN (father), Selwyn Street, Timaru
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	11th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	1 April 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From		Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

Death

Date	6 February 1979	Age	83 years
Place of Death	Montecillo War Veterans Home, Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 62, Plot 1721
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joshua Gordon Hamlyn was the son of Joshua and Agnes (née Watson) Hamlyn. He married Margaret Brosnan in 1930.His brother Arthur was called up for war service.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 January 2019]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [14 January 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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