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Personal data

• Name HANSFORD
• Initials WW
• First name W W
• Place of birth Plumstead
• Country England
• Last residence Ngaere, Taranaki, New Zealand
• Family Son of Mr. W. Hansford, of 58, Herbert Rd., Plumstead, London.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment First attestation: New Plymouth, 18 August 1915
  Second attestation: Featherston, 20 August 1916
• Service number 10/637
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 3rd Bn. Wellington Regiment
• Division - Brigade 4th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career First embarkation: 16 October 1914 ;
  Discharged (gunshot wounds in left shoulder, right knee and left thigh): 3 February 1916
  
  Second embarkation: 7 December 1916 ;
  To France: 27 May 1917

Death

• Wounded 4 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in abdomen and arm at n°17 CCS
• Date of death 5 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - C - 14A

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