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HINDLEY, Frank Lawton
(Service number 7/489)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Major

Birth

Date	02/01/1881	Place of Birth	Farnworth, Lancashire, England

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Matilda St, Timaru
Occupation	Auction Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William Lawton Hindley, c/o Guinness and Le Cren, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
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 Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	Became Officer in charge of the NZ Record Section in France
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Balkans (Gallipoli), Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Western Europe
Service Medals
Military Awards	Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) four times.

Award Circumstances and Date

01/01/1919

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	9 March 1937	Age
Place of Death	Wellington
Cause
Notices	Cenotaph database
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

David Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum

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