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WOTTON, William Burnard
(Service number 3/735)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	92 Arthur Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M.E. Wotton (mother), 92 Arthur Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	No. 2 Stationary Hospital
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Medical Corps
Date	13 June 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt (24 July - 6 August 1915)

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Medical Corps

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	22 September 1916	Age
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Memorial plaque, St Paul's Church, No 3 Field Ambulance, 25 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimataitai School War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Sources

Cenotaph (12 Aug 2013)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

Currently Assigned to

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