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FERENS, Gordon Hamilton
(Service number 6/453)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	05/05/1888	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- Miss Bradley, Sophia St, Timaru, Canterbury
Occupation	Mercer for C.G Snow, Timaru
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William Henry Ferens, 167 York Place, Dunedin
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	2nd South Canterbury Company
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-1916, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916, Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915, France & Belgium 1916
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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	Cenotaph Jan 2015

Biographical Notes

Wounded at Gallipoli

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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