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Harold Godsalve Shouler

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Harold Godsalve AWMM
  • Surname
    Shouler AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Hank AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 543 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    11 November 1891 AWMM Middlesex, England AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • WW1 11 Bracewell St, Hammersmith, London AWMM
    • WW2 27 Pownall St, Masterton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Sales manager/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Constance Caroline Shouler, " Bracewell St., Hammersmith, London AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details
    WW1
    2nd Embarkation AWMM

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    20 November 1917 AWMMHospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
    Wounded hand and face near Marcoing, Battle of Cambrai. No2 Gen. Hosp. Rouen; No5 Southern Gen. Hosp. Portsmouth. AWMM

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • One of three brothers who joined the Territorial unit of their County regiment, the 10 Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.

    Trained as a signaller.

    Bn mobilised on the outbreak of war and was sent to India in October 1914

    In 1916 Shouler was sent to England for officer training.

    Nov 1916 joined the 1st Tank Corps Cadet Bn, Pirbright.

    In France he was given command of a fighting tank in the 1st Bn (A Bn).

    Wounded in hand and mouth and spent time in hospital.

    Later rejoined Corps and assisted with demobilisation until he moved to New Zealand.

    In 1940 volunteered fir service with the NZ army, he joined as a private soldier, soon Sgt on the NZ Temporary Staff with the Army Area office in Masterton with posting to Napier, Hastings and Nelson.

    Died in 1944 aged 52. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    1944 AWMM
    Age 52 AWMM
    Masterton, Wairarapa AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Masterton Municipal Cemetery AWMM Servicemen's section AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
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    Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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