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PROUDLOCK, Alexander
(Service number 7/889)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	29/01/1896	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date	13 December 1914	Age	18 (claimed to be 20)
Address at Enlistment	48 Hamilton St, Temuka
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience	SC Mounted Rifles
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs J Proudlock (mother) 48 Hamilton St, Temuka
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	5ft 7in, 134lbs, dark complexion, dark brown eyes, black hair

Military Service

Served with	New Zealand Armed Forces (?)	Served in	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Third Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	C Squadron
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Western Front
Service Medals	1914-15 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	21 August 1918	Reason	Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Block 39, plot 4

Post-war Occupations

Farmer/caretaker

Death

Date	19 February 1967	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alexander Proudlock was born at Temuka on 29 January 1896 to John Grant Proudlock and his wife Ellen (nee Taylor), the sixth child of nine children.

Alexander put his age up by two years when he enlisted on 13 December 1914, claiming to be 20 years old when he was only 18. He was a labourer employed by H. McCully of Temuka – described as 5ft 7in, and 134lbs, with a dark complexion, dark brown eyes, and black hair. He gave his next of kin as his mother, Mrs J. Proudlock of 48 Hamilton St, Temuka, and claimed previous military experience with the South Canterbury Mounted Rifles and senior cadets before that. Proudlock (service no.7/889) embarked for Suez on 12 February 1915, arriving on 26 March. He was admitted to hospital in Cairo in August and December of 1915 and also spent a few months with the 2nd Battalion of the Auckland Infantry Regiment. Proudlock was wounded in France on 16 September 1916 with a gunshot wound to his “lower extremities”, and wounded for a second time in June 1917 with a gunshot wound to his left leg. He was promoted to corporal in the field November 1917, but received another shrapnel wound to his right thigh on 30 November1917. After his three woundings Proudfoot was classified unfit on April 1918. He embarked for New Zealand at Liverpool 1 May 1918 and returned on the Ulimaroa, arriving in June 1918. He was finally discharged on 21 August 1918 no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service, with a total service of three years 252 days.

In 1919 he was working as a teamster in Temuka, in 1928 as a tramway employee in Christchurch. He married Sarah Jane Gillies Patterson in 1929. In 1938 Proudlock was a farmer in East Eyreton, and he was a caretaker in Christchurch in 1954. He died on 19 February 1967, at that time living at 256 Edgeware Rd, Christchurch.

Sources

NZ Defence Force Personnel Records, Archives NZ; NZ BMD Online at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/; Assorted articles courtesy of Papers Past at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/; Assorted records at Ancestry.com; Christchurch City cemeteries records at https://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com/Cemeteries/

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