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Charles Edward Stratford

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Portrait, Casualty Notice The Star, 12 April 1918 - No known copyright restrictions
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Charles Edward AWMM
  • Surname
    Stratford AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 7/2157 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 A. Stratford, (mother), 33 Suffolk Street, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • Battle of the Somme AWMM
    • Battle of Messines AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 7/2157 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Upholsterer/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
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
    Severely wounded in left thigh AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Educated at the Marist Brothers School AWMM

Death

About 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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Roll of Honour

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  • Remembering a wonderful storyteller from my childhood. Gone too soon Grandad.
    Public - Mary - Other Relative - 22 April 2015
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Sources

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DateNameLocationRelationshipContact
25 April 2018SarndraAuckland, New ZealandResearcher
22 April 2015MaryChristchurch NZOther Relative
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