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Rupert Henry William Ashworth

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rupert Henry William AWMM
  • Surname
    Ashworth AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 11/1652 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    13 November 1892 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra Hatfield, United Kingdom Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Glenburn, Hinakura, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Farmer at Nga Panga Te Kuiti
    Manager of Guavas Station Hawkes Bay
    Curator Treaty House Waitangi Public - Marianne - Other relative - 23 June 2019 - Family Papers
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs H. Ashworth (mother), The Hostel, Heddington, Oxford, England AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 9 October 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
    • Married Beatrice Catherine Abraham, Palmerston North, Feb 1924 Public - Marianne - Other relative - 23 June 2019 - Family Papers

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 11/1652 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 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' 8" AWMM
    • Weight, WWI AWMM
      148 lb AWMM
    • Height, WWI AWMM
      5' 8" AWMM
    • Weight, WWI AWMM
      148 lb AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Disembarked Suez, 18 November 1915.
    Left for Canal Zone, 23 January 1916.
    Admitted to 31st General Hospital, Port Said, 17 July 1916 (conjunctivitis); discharged to duty, 24 July 1916
    Wounded slightly, Canal Zone, 7 August 1916; admitted to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 4 August 1916; transferred to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Ismailia, 7 August 1916.
    Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board HT 'Ayrshire', 20 November 1916; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in action), 5 February 1917.
    War service: 1 year 273 days (of which 1 year 92 days was abroad)

    Ex 7th Reinforcements
    Embarked Wellington, 14 May 1919; disembarked London, England, 21 July 1919.
    Demobilised (discharged) in England, 15 August 1919. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    1974 Public source
  • 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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23 June 2019MarianneWellingtonOther relative

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