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WILLIAMS, Maddren
(Service number 55654)

Maddren Williams (centre), circa 1917 — (Courtesy of B Healey, South Canterbury Museum L2015/002.002)

The Williams family, circa 1900 — Those pictured are identified on the reverse as (from left to right):
BACK ROW: Jim, Nick, Annie, Dick, Jack, Bessie
FRONT ROW: Eliza (d.1966), Ned, Mr Jim (James) Williams, Maddren, Olive, Mrs Eliza Williams (nee Hocking) (Courtesy of B Healey, South Canterbury Museum L2015/002.001)

Maddren Williams and his family, circa 1950 — Pictured are (from left to right): Angel Patricia, Maddren (front) Jack (John), Olive (front), and Betty (Courtesy of B Healey, South Canterbury Museum L2015/002.003)

Maddren Williams' headstone, Ashburton — (Courtesy of B Healey )

Aliases	Tom
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31 January 1893	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Eliza WILLIAMS (mother), Saint Andrews, Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Reinforcements G Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

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

17 September 1918 admitted to hospital in Egnland, with gunshot wound in right thigh.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 October 1978	Age	85 yrs
Place of Death	Ashburton
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of James Clemens & Eliza (nee HOCKING) WILLIAMS. Educated at Springbrook & St Andrews (South Canterbury) schools. Named in ballot of April 1917. Married Olive May DREW in 1923. Returned aboard transport No. 204 to Port Chalmers, about 11 January 1919. Died in 1978. Brother William John WILLIAMS (Jack) was killed in action in 1917.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [07 March 2014]; Timaru Herald, 7 June 1917, 27 September 1918, 8 January 1919, Press, 18 April 1917, Otago Daily Times, 7 January 1919 (Papers Past) [08 March 2014, 20 March 2014]; NZ BDM Indexes (DIA) [07 March 2014]; Family Tree (ancestry.com.au) [09 March 2014]; NZSG Cemetery Records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG microfiche collection) [23 March 2014]; SCRoll web submission by L Richards, 27 October 2018

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