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RICHARDS, Wilfred Collet
(Service number 63043)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	04/09/1898	Place of Birth	Belfast, Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	14 York Street, Belfast
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs F. RICHARDS (mother), Pareora
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date	21 November 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Regiment

Military Awards

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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

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 September 1940	Age	43 years
Place of Death	Waipiata Sanatorium, Waipiata, Central Otago
Cause	Pulmonary tuberculosis
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 104, Plot 20
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Wilfred Collet Richards was the son of Fred and Agnes Richards, of Pareora. Wilfred was one of the first pupils at Pareora East School, transferring there from Kingsdown School in 1907. eighteen months later he moved to Springbrook School.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [02 December 2016]

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