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Horace Austin

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Headstone of Private Horace Austin (10/3175). Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. New Zealand War Graves Trust (BEDA9582). CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Headstone of Private Horace Austin (10/3175). Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen …

Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Horace AWMM
  • Surname
    Austin AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 10/3175 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    9 January 1891 NZWGT Penge, Kent NZWGT
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Kenilworth, Hill Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs A.W. Herbert (mother), Berkley Farm, Kent, England AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 13 November 1915 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 10/3175 AWMM
  • Military service
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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
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    5 October 1917 AWMMDied of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
    Wounded in action 4 October 1917 (gunshot wound chest) and admitted to 3 New Zealand Field Ambulance the same day. Transferred to 3 Australian Casualty Casualty Clearing Station on 4 October 1917 and died of wounds the following day. AWMM

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Horace Austin was the son of Herbert and Adelaide Austin; husband of Alice Mary Austin, of 114, Putney Bridge Road, Wandsworth, London, England.

    Previously employed as Hotel Porter by Mrs Leslie, 105 Hill Street, Wellington AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    5 October 1917 AWMM
    Belgium, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of wounds AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. B. 13. AWMM
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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 24 AWMM
    • NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations. AWMM
    • Sloane, K. (2014) Living With High Explosives, The 1st NZ Light Trench Mortar Battery, 1916-1918. Public - Keith - Researcher - 3 March 2015 - Military History

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