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HENNESSY, Nickolas
(Service number 6/3347)

Aliases	Cornelius
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12 April 1888	Place of Birth	Washdyke

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Smithfield, Timaru
Occupation	Slaughterman (Smithfield Freezing Works)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Dennis Hennessey (father), Washdyke, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Four tattoos on his right forearm, including one of the fully rigged Timaru ship La Bella and another of locked hearts.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Western Europe
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	On Memorial wall, Timaru (as C N HENNESSEY)

Biographical Notes

On the Cenotaph record his surname is spelt as Hennessey. The tattoo of the ship is of the barquentine `La Bella', owned by D C Turnbull and Co of Timaru which engaged in trading from 1901-1905.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

David Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum

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