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BENNEWITH, William John
(Service number 20/4)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/01/1864	Place of Birth	Lucknow, India

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	21 William St, Timaru
Occupation	Fitter
Previous Military Experience	Served in British Hussars for eight years from 1883-1891, then time expired. Served in relief of Khartoum in 1885
Marital Status	Married (with three children)
Next of Kin	Mrs W.J. Bennewith (wife), 21 William St, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Relief Force, NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Mounted Infantry
Date	27 March 1915
Transport	Talune
Embarked From		Destination	Apia, Samoa

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

Cardiac problem reported, newspaper 18 September 1915, Discharged 26 October 1915 as medically unfit.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	3 December 1927	Age	63
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause	Gastric ulcer
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	A64 Plot 346 Servicemen's plot
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (August 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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