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HOWIE, William David
(Service number 6/1574)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	15/04/1885	Place of Birth	Hampden

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Rose HOWIE (mother), Palmerston, Otago
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards	Military Medal & bar

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	3 February 1942	Age	55 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Riverton Cemetery, Southland
Memorial Reference	Block L, Plot 2
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William David Howie was the son of David Sloan and Rose May (née Summerall) Howie.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [18 December 2018]; refer Press, 24 January 1920 (Papers Past)

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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