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HUSTON, Alfred William John
(Service number 3/2491)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	27/04/1896	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	19 Evans Street, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J.M. Huston (mother), 19 Evans Street, Timaru
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	16th Reinforcements, New Zealand Medical Corps
Date	19 August 1916
Transport	Aparima or Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European 1916-1917
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	22 March 1919	Reason	Discharged no longer physically fit(fractured tibula)

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	7 August 1957	Age
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [1 May 2019]; "Good deed during WWI brought humanity to conflict" on Stuff at https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/112215181/good-deed-during-wwi-brought-humanity-to-conflict [Accessed 1 May 2019]

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