William Brennan

Forenames

William AWMM

Surname

Brennan AWMM

Also known as

Bill

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Service number

WWI 8/1707 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

2 Jul 1895 Public Source

Date of birth

2 July 1895

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Place of birth

Dunedin

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM PO, North-east Valley, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Francis Brennan (father), North-east Valley, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 17 Apr 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• Single
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/1707 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Occupation before enlistment

Seaman

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Embarkation details

WW1 17 Apr 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 21 or HMNZT 22 or HMNZT 23 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo AWMM Private AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of Francis and Jane Brennan, of Upper Junction, Dunedin. New Zealand AWMM

Death

29 Jun 1916 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM I. C. 4. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Archives New Zealand.
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22278747
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/275828/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/275828
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 75
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.