George Alexander

Forenames

George AWMM

Surname

Alexander AWMM

Service number

WWI 45338 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Miss E. Alexander (sister), Harbour Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 45338 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Rifleman AWMM 25th Reinforcements, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion AWMM

George Alexander was the son of Mrs. M. Alexander, of 5 Harbour Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

8 Jan 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Cave War Memorial, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• 62898 Lance Corporal George Francis Alexander, D Coy. Otago Infantry Reg. Farmer of Cave, died of wounds (received near Bapaume) 1st battalion, Otago regiment, 8th Company C.C. is listed on the Cave War Memorial, in South Canterbury, N.Z.
  
  Not this George Alexander 45338.
  Public - Olwyn - 27 August 2018 - AWMM online cenotaph.

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22268738
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Cave War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/cave-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737204/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737204
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  62: 28
• Information kindly provided by family
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917