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Sydney Frederick Breach

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Ashburton War Memorial. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003. - Image has All Rights Reserved

Ashburton War Memorial. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003. - Image has All Rights Reserved

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Sydney Frederick AWMM
  • Surname
    Breach AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI 25/945 AWMM
    • WWI 25945 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Edith Breach (wife), Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 February 1916 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 25/945 AWMM
    • WWI 25945 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards
    • Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
      London Gazette, 4 January 1917, p262, Rec No 336: AWMM
    • Victory Medal AWMM
      This non commissioned officer has shown great devotion to duty since the arrival of his Battalion in France, especially during the operations around Flers on the 15th and 16th September. He led his platoon with gallantry and dash. Seeing that a Lewis Gun team had been either killed or wounded he took charge of the gun, using it with very good effect. AWMM
    • British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Baker/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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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
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Sydney Breach was the son of W. H. and B. A. Breach, of Rakaia; husband of Edith Breach, of Rakaia, New Zealand.

    Remembered on the Ashburton War Memorial. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    8 October 1918 AWMM
    Age 37 AWMM
    Le Cateau, France AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Naves Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 11. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Ashburton War Memorial, Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      24: 10 AWMM
    • Blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa] AWMM

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