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HENRY, David Gordon
(Service number 44374)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	27/09/1880	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Mangatoki, Taranaki
Occupation	Blacksmith
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Lexy HENRY (mother), Temuka, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	24th Reinforcements, F Company
Date	26 April 1917
Transport	Pakeha
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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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

Tramway employee

Death

Date	17 October 1931	Age	51 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

David Gordon Henry was the second son of Davis and Alexandrina (Lexy, née Robertson) Henry. D. G. Henry, 44374, Temuka, returned to New Zealand in March 1918 in Draft 149.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 February 2017]; Evening Post, 13 March 1918 (Papers Past) [05 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [05 February 2017]

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