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HAZELTON, Thomas Lindsay
(Service number 6/3035)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases	Sometimes spelt incorrectly as Hazelton in some records
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	24/08/1884	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	NZ Prisons, Lyttleton
Occupation	Prison Warden
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	T Hazleton (father) Waimate
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Tattoo on chest, varicose veins operation scars

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	HMNZT 32, 33, or 34 (Aprarima, Navua, or Warrimoo)
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Machine Gun Corp

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Western European
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	15 Sept 1916	Age	32
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices	Originally buried at Bottom Wood Cemetery, near Fricourt, France.
Memorial or Cemetery	Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	III.N.3
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Annie Hazleton, Waimate. Annie died in 1899 and John married Lily Cavanagh in 1907 (John and Lily are given as parents on the CWGC site). Thomas was originally buried at Bottom Wood Cemetery, near Fricourt, France

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG); Dave Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum

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