Profile

MADDREN, Arnold Hodson
(Service number 78601)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	29/01/1998	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date	29 April 1918	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	Winchester
Occupation	Labourer at Maddren Bros
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs F Maddren, Winchester, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion	Methodist
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	43rd Reinforcements Mounted Rifles
Date	10 October 1918
Transport	Moeraki then transferred to Malta at Sydney for Suez
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt Expedtionary Force 1917-18
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	12 April 1919	Age	21
Place of Death	Te Rata Privatae Hopsital, Temuka
Cause	Peritonitis
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Winchester War Memorial; Temuka War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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