Alfred Henry HARDING

Regimental number10/1511
Date of birth25 May 1895
Place of birthTaranaki
ReligionSalvation Army
OccupationDriver
AddressFeilding
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Height5' 6"
Weight147 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs Harding, Manchester Street, Feilding
Previous military serviceServed in D Company, 7th Regiment, Territorial Force; not serving in any military unit at time of NZEF enlistment.
Enlistment date15 December 1914
Place of enlistmentTrentham
Rank on embarkationPrivate
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Tahiti on 14 February 1915
Final rankPrivate
Final unitWellington Infantry Regiment
FateKilled in Action 8 August 1915
Age at death from cemetery records20
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsChunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial (Panel No 20), Gallipoli, Turkey
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Harriet Sarah Harding, 124 Manchester Street, Feilding, and the late Walter Harding
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Admitted to hospital, Zeitoun, 9 April 1915 (spinal weakness).

Joined Bn, Gallipoli, 28 July 1915.

Reported missing, 8 August 1915.

Board of Enquiry, held at Moascar Camp, Ismailia, 16 January 1916, concluded: 'Now believed to be dead'.

War service: 237 days (of which 176 days were abroad)

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Wellington Infantry Batln/Third
SourcesArchives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805, File 16791465

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