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PAUL, Henry Shields
(Service number 12/1859)

Private H S Paul — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Henry Paul's British War Medal (obverse) — (Courtesy of L Paul, South Canterbury Museum L2015/003.01)

Henry Paul's British War Medal (edge stamp) — (Coutesy of L Paul, South Canterbury Museum L2015/003.01)

Memorial plaque, Henry Paul — (Courtesy of L Paul, South Canterbury Museum L2015/003.02)

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

Waimate War Memorial (right panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #02)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Tauhie, Morrinsville, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs William Anderson (sister), Waimate, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Auckland Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Infantry 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	8 August 1915	Age	35
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 11
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Andrew and Jessie Paul, of Waimate, South Canterbury.

A descendant, Lester Paul, recounted that as far as the family knew Henry Paul didn’t have a sister (as listed for his enlistment NOK), but they understand this may have been false as Henry enlisted without telling his family. Other documents give Henry's brother, William Gardener Paul, as his NOK. In later years (the 1960s?) Henry’s ‘Dead man’s Penny’ was returned to the family after it was brought to light by an unrelated pupil in a school classroom. The pupil’s family had previously found it in their garden.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [28 Dec 2013]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20799592; SCRoll submission from L Paul (hardcopy and personal discussion with T Rippin), 9 January 2015

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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