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VENVILLE, William
(Service number 6/3497)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	23 February 1890	Place of Birth	Tredegar, Wales

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	57 Guise Street, Temuka
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs E. PRATTLEY (mother), 57 Guise Street, Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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	27 July 1948	Age	58 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waikumete Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Plot 42
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Venville wa sthe son of William Venville and Elizabeth née Simmonds. He married Annie Winifred Ward in 1919 in Surrey, England. His mother married frederick Prattley in 1895 at Temuka.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 May 2019]; Waikume Cemetery headstone transcription [13 May 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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