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TOWGOOD, Arthur Hugh
(Service number 6/564)

Aliases
First Rank (1) Private; (2) Private Last Rank

Birth

Date 11/05/1890 Place of Birth Wanganui

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment 6 Stafford Street, Timaru
Occupation Slaughterman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status (1) Single; (2) Married
Next of Kin (1) William Herbert TOWGOOD (father), Taumarunui; (2) Mrs A. R. N. TOWGOOD (wife), care of W. H. TOWGOOD, Taumarunui
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation (1) Main Body; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship (Canterbury Infantry Battalion); (2) 38th Reinforcements, C Company
Date (1) 16 October 1914; (2) 3 June 1918
Transport (1) Tahiti or Athenic; (2) Remuera
Embarked From Destination (2) Liverpool, Merseyside, England
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

November 1918 - not severe case

Post-war Occupations

Dairy farmer

Death

Date 9 December 1953 Age 63 years
Place of Death Tuakau
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Cremated Waikumete, Auckland; ashes scattered
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Arthur Hugh Towgood was the son of William Herbert and Ellen Florence Marianne (née Powell) Towgood. He married Alexandrina Rena Natalie Campbell in 1915, and they had three sons. After Alexandrina's death in 1946, he married Mary Mable Elizabeth Stanford.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [02 July 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [July 2019; Waikumete Cremation record [06 July 2019]; New Zealand Times, 21 November 1918 (PP) [02 July 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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