George Alexander Cardno

Forenames

George Alexander AWMM

Surname

Cardno AWMM

Service number

• WWI 23/702 AWMM
• WWI 4/166 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

30 Mar 1893 Military personnel file

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre Aug 1914 AWMM Palmerston South Railway-station, Palmerston South, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 G.G. Cardno (father), 48 Fitzroy Street, Caversham, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Samoa AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 23/702 AWMM
• WWI 4/166 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 11 Aug 1914 Military personnel file
  Age  21 AWMM
  Railway porter/Civilian Military personnel file
• WW1 29 May 1915 Military personnel file Railway porter/Civilian Military personnel file

Embarkation details

• WW1 Vessel was Talune AWMM Samoan Relief Force AWMM Samoan Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW1 Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo AWMM C Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

• WW1 23 Mar 1915 Military personnel file Sapper Military personnel file
  New Zealand Railway Engineers Military personnel file
• WW1 Rifleman Military personnel file
  New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion Military personnel file

Death

• 15 Sept 1916 Military personnel file
  Age  23 AWMM
• 15 Sept 1916 Allan Steel Cemetery Project
  Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

• Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France AWMM II. A. 14. AWMM
• Andersons Bay General Cemetery, Dunedin City Council AWMM Block 100, Plot 10 AWMM

Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, Dunedin Railway Station, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21895488
  Sources Used
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Dunedin Railway Station Roll of Honour. Available from New Zealand History online.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/dunedin-railway-station-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/38703/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/38703
  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: 110
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020)
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.