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George Bruce Bougen

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  • Service number
    • 9836 AWMM
    • South African 1381 AWMM
    • 4677 AWMM
    • 4th Cngt = 1381; 7th Cngt = 4677; 10th Cngt = 9836 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
    • WWI - 19/21 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Mounted Rifles & Samoan Relief Force Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Last rank
  • War
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South African War Memorial, on a wall near RSA entranceway, Gisborne. "Volunteers from Poverty Bay who served in the Sth African War 1899-1902". Image kindly provided by Paul Baker (December 2008). Image has no known copyright restrictions.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
    Lieutenant Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Forenames
    George Bruce AWMM
  • Surname
    Bougen AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • 9836 AWMM
    • South African 1381 AWMM
    • 4677 AWMM
    • 4th Cngt = 1381; 7th Cngt = 4677; 10th Cngt = 9836 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
    • WWI - 19/21 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Gender
    • Male AWMM
    • Male Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England & Presbyterian Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    • 13 June 1874 AWMM
    • 13 June 1878 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    13 June 1878 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record says 13 June 1874 but BMD NZ records says 1878
  • Place of birth
    Gisborne NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    Son of George & Rose Bougen Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - BMD NZ records
  • Address before enlistment
    C/- mother - Mrs R Ashdown, Matawhero Gisborne Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
    Shepherd Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 Mrs G.B. Bougen (wife), Granity, Westport, New Zealand AWMM
    • mother - Mrs R Ashdown & stepfather - Mr John Ashdown
      son of George & Rose Bougen Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 27 March 1915 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM
    • single Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
    Transvaal, Orange Free State, Rhodesia, Cape Colony Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Mounted Rifles & Samoan Relief Force Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Service number
    • 9836 AWMM
    • South African 1381 AWMM
    • 4677 AWMM
    • 4th Cngt = 1381; 7th Cngt = 4677; 10th Cngt = 9836 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
    • WWI - 19/21 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Military service
    • SA WAR: 4th, 7th & 10th Contingents; WWI - Samoan Relief Force Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
    • SA WAR: 1900-1902; WWI: 1915 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Shepherd for Mr Arnold Whetherhead of Matawhero Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Age on enlistment
    4th = 20 yrs; 10th = 23 yrs; WWI = 41 yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Records

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details
    • South Africa 31 March 1900 Ministry for Culture and Heritage from Ministry for Culture and Heritage
      Gymeric Ministry for Culture and Heritage Vessel was Gymeric AWMM Private Ministry for Culture and Heritage Samoan Relief Force Ministry for Culture and Heritage Infantry AWMM
    • South Africa 14 April 1902 Ministry for Culture and Heritage from Ministry for Culture and Heritage
      Drayton Grange Ministry for Culture and Heritage Vessel was Drayton Grange AWMM Private Ministry for Culture and Heritage New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 10th Contingent Ministry for Culture and Heritage 10 Contingent, Details AWMM
      2nd Embarkation AWMM
    • 31 March 1900 on the Troopship 'Gymeric' with the 4th Cngt
      14 April 1902 on the Troopship 'Drayton Grange' with the 10th Cngt Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 August 2015 - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/soldier/g-bougen
      http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/soldier/george-bruce-bougen

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    1918- Chronic Rhematism Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    SA War - Sergeant
    WWI - Private Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • His father was named George Bougen.

      Father was named George Bougen. AWMM
    • July 1901 - Sergeant B. G. Bougen, one of the Gisborne boys at the front, originally of the Fourth, now of the Seventh Contingent, writing home from Standerton, states that since last writing he has been made a sergeant, under Lieutenant Trotter, who is the provost-marshall, and there is another sergeant and three men attached to him. They are the policemen in Colonel Gray's column. "We have little work to do," he says, and "Trotter is a good boss." The Seventh had had bad luck thus far having lost three killed and three wounded. One of the Fourth with them, Fred Wyllie, had been killed, and Lieutenant Dillon, who had been with the Fourth right through, came with the Seventh, took command of the scouts, got very badly wounded, and had died since. Four days previously one of the Fifth who was with them was shot dead. Bougen mentions that Trooper James Langham, of Gisborne, who had won the Distinguished Service medal, is returning home. Bougen mentions having met Colonel Porter, who remarked that it was the first opportunity he had had of seeing him since he sent him away with the Fourth from Gisborne. Jack Taylor, from Gisborne, he says, is working as a farrier with them, and is getting 8s day, Bougen himself earning 7s a day as sergeant. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 June 2015 - Poverty Bay Herald
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    7 December 1942 AWMM
    Age 69 AWMM
  • Date of death
    7 December 1942 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Age at death
    68 yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Place of death
    Wanganui Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Aramoho Cemetery AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM

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17 August 2015Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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