Profile

HUNT, James Arthur Spencer
(Service number 7/2275)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	02/02/1896	Place of Birth	Bunnythorpe, Manawatu

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Miss B. HUNT (sister), High Street, Waimate, Canterbury
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	0th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted rifles, C Squadron
Date	4 March 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 September 1978	Age	82 years
Place of Death	Nelson
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Marsden Valley Cemetery, Nelson
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Arthur Spencer Hunt was the youngest son of Thomas and Anna (née Thim) Hunt. His brother Robert Herman Walter Thomas Hunt was killed in action in 1918 in France; another brother, Albert August Hunt, also served in World War I. James returned to Waimate in April 1919 per the troopship "Kaikoura".

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 April 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 April 2019]; Oamaru Mail [09 April 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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