George Clement Wadsworth

Forenames

George Clement AWMM

Surname

Wadsworth AWMM

Service number

• WWI 53618 AWMM
• WWII T124X AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

2 Nov 1893 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 24 Karaka St, Castlecliffe, Wanganui AWMM

Post war occupation

Marine Engineer/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs G.C. Wadsworth (wife), 6 Buick Street, Petone, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Married/WWII AWMM

War

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• Navy AWMM
• Merchant Navy AWMM

Service number

• WWI 53618 AWMM
• WWII T124X AWMM

Military service

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Marine Engineer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 13 Aug 1917-02 Oct 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 91 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 29th Reinforcements, Specialists Company, Machine-Gun Section AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW1 Royal Naval Reserve AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW2 New Zealand Military Forces, Home Service Section AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM
• WW2 Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM
  4th Embarkation AWMM
• WW2 Merchant Navy AWMM
  5th Embarkation AWMM

Did not embark overseas. Prospective Discharge Date 14/10/1945 (Source: Personnel - Demobilisation R21465794) AWMM

Death

1965 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22021036
  Further Reference
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
  Further Reference
• ON SERVICE, Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 55, 5 March 1918, Page 3
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19180305.2.27
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• HMNZT 91. The short cut : being a souvenir of the wanderings of "A" Company, 29th Reinforcements, across the two great oceans : Christmas souvenir. [1917]. London: Printed by St. Clements Press.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  70: 24
• HMNZT 91 - The mokoian : being a record of the wanderings of the artillery, engineers, specialists, A & E Coys., N.Z.M.C. & Details of the 29th Reinforcement, N.Z.E.F./ Moore, W.W. (Walter William), editor. Jones, Anthony, editor. -- On board ship : Printed and published at sea : [1917]
• Personnel - Demobilisation - Monthly list of personnel demobilised [Royal New Zealand Navy], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYT 8490 N1/426 (R21465794)
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
• Atkinson, N. (2005). Hell or high water : New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war. HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.