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Harry Guthrie Whishaw

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Harry Guthrie AWMM
  • Surname
    Whishaw AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 10/154 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    15 June 1885 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 12 August 1914 AWMM Featherston, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Kate Whishaw (mother), Stoneridge, Featherston, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
    • Battle of the Somme AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 10/154 AWMM
  • Military service
    North West Mounted Police, Canada (18 months) AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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
    • Height, Unknown Period AWMM
      5 foot 9.5 inches AWMM
    • Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
      148 pounds AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      April 1915 wounded in action, Dardanelles, bullet wound in the neck AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      August 1915 schrapnel in the hand AWMM
    • Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of John Henley Whishaw and Kathrine (listed at BDM as Catherine) Elizabeth Whishaw of Stoneridge, Featherston.

    Three children enlisted and died Bernard Guthrie (WW1 11/1996), Harry Guthrie (WW1 10/154) and Mabel (22/371).

    Appointed Corporal in April 1916 and then temporary Lance Sergeant June 1916.

    The Auckland Museum Library's manuscripts collection holds an autograph album containing the signatures of seventy (70) First World War New Zealand soldiers who were patients at No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, in January, 1916. Harry Whishaw's signature is among them. [Ref. MS 2005/19]

    Rank last held was listed as Temporary Lance Sergeant. AWMM
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    3 July 1916 AWMM
    Age 32 AWMM
    Somme, Northern France AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM I.C.29. AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Featherston War Memorial, 89 Fitzherbert Street, Featherston, Wairarapa AWMM

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