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LAWTON, William
(Service number 6/3772)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin A. Lawton (brother), Tisbury, via Invercargill, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 9th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date 8 January 1916
Transport Maunganui
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

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 1 October 1916 Age
Place of Death Somme, France
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Caterpilllar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longguval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Albury War Memorial; Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of William and Sarah Jane Lawton

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014); Invercargill Cemetery database; NZ Historical BDM records (bdmhistoricalrecords,dai.govt.nz)

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Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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