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HURDLEY, William
(Service number 13/644)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	8th November 1884	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date	14th September 1914	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	13 London Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Adv. Agent
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Hurdley, P.O. Box 163, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	Brown hair, grey eyes, 5ft 7in, 154lb

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Auckland Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 8 Star of India or HMNZT 12 Waimana
Embarked From	Auckland, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian (1914-1916); Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1916-1917); Balkan (Gallipoli 1915)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal;
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	13 December 1917	Reason	No longer fit for service

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	10 August 1954	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph database (9 July 2015); Military personnel file (9 July 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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