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O'CONNOR, William Louis
(Service number 63034)

Aliases	Louis
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	21/07/1896	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Teamster
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs C. O'CONNOR (mother), Cricklewood
Religion
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	32nd Reinforcements Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company
Date	21 November 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Liverpool, 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

September 1918 advice received that he had been wounded.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 January 1963	Age	66 yrs
Place of Death	Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference	Services Block 33, Plot 6
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Patrick & Catherine O'CONNOR, of Cricklewood. Brother of others who served in WWI.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [13 December 2013]; DCC headstone image, Anderson's Bay Cemetery [14 December 2013]; Timaru Herald, 9 September 1918 (Papers Past) [13 December 2013]

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