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Gloud Reid Aitken

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Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 7 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Gloud Reid AWMM
  • Surname
    Aitken AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 7/298 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    7 March 1891 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Doyleston, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    William Aitken (father), Doyleston, 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
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 7/298 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Canterbury, New Zealand 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
    • Height, WWI AWMM
      5' 10" AWMM
    • Weight, WWI AWMM
      182 lb AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Mentioned on the Doyleton Memorial Library

    URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/doyleston-memorial-library (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 22-Apr-2010

    War service: admitted to NZ General Hospital, Cairo, 11 October 1915 (enteritis); listed as dangerously ill, 17 October 1915; taken off dangerously ill list, 2 November 1915.
    Commenced return to New Zealand on board HS 'Maheno', 29 November 1915; discharged, Wellington, 12 April 1916.
    Re-enlisted, Featherston Camp, 10 May 1916.
    Embarked, 5 December 1916; disembarked Suez, 12 January 1917, and admitted to Government Hospital, Suez (diphtheria); discharged to duty, 16 January 1917.
    Admitted to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 31 July 1918 (malaria); discharged to Aotea Convalescent Home, 11 August 1918.
    Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board HT 'Wiltshire', 13 March 1919; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service: post-malarial debility), 1 May 1919.
    Total war service: 3 years 329 days (of which 2 years 262 days were abroad) AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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