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O'CONNOR, Hugh
(Service number 24215)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	07/10/1890	Place of Birth	Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date	10 February 1916	Age	26 yrs 4 mths
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Eugene O'CONNOR (father), Temuka, S. Cant; 66 College Rd, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
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	13th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion. C Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport, England

Other Units Served With	Military Training at Sling Camp
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	Yes
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

29 May 1916 Wairarapa Hospital - influenza. December 1916 Hospital Boulogne - emphysema. October 1917 spent 3 weeks in British Isolation Hospital at Bailleul, with dysentry.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	6 January 1917	Age	26 yrs
Place of Death	England
Cause	Died of disease (acute nephritis & pleurisy)
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England
Memorial Reference	Plot A, Row 3, Grave 9
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; St Joseph's Church, Temuka; Hazelburn District War Memorial; Ashburton War Memorial; Temuka War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Eugene & Margaret (nee DALY) O'CONNOR, of Temuka & Timaru. Illness & death story - see Cenotaph Database. Member of St Joseph's R C Church, Temuka.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [03 August 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5549 0087643) [04 August 2013; CWGC [03 August 2013]

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