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HAYWOOD, Alexander
(Service number 16301)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	23 December 1892	Place of Birth	Otaio

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Beautiful Valley
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs W. HAYWOOD (mother), Beautiful Valley, Geraldine, South Canterbury
Religion	Church of England
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	16th Reinforcements, New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	10 August 1916
Transport	Moeraki; transhipped to Mooltan at Sydney for Suez
Embarked From		Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns
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

Farm manager

Death

Date	15 January 1957	Age	64 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 170, Plot 654
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alexander Haywood was the first-born of William and Jessie (née Morrison) Haywood.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [23 March 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [23 March 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [23 March 2017]

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