Profile

FOLEY, Timothy Joseph
(Service number 82055)

Aliases	Ted
First Rank		Last Rank

Birth

Date	14 August 1893	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience	2nd South Canterbury Regiment
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs John FOLEY (father), Waimate, South Canterbury
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

Farmer

Death

Date	8 February 1966	Age	72 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Timothy Joseph Foley, known as Ted, was the son of John and Hanorah Michaela (Norah, née Leonard). He was a farm hand at Douglas Settlement when he was called up in 1917. His brother, Michael Vincent Foley, who served with the Australian Forces, died in 1915 at Gallipoli. Timothy married Helen (Ellen, Nell) Hunter in 1921.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs); Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch cemetery records) [19 August 2019)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

Tell us more

Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!