William Stewart LANGLEY

Regimental number29033
Date of birth19 August 1878
Place of birthChristchurch
OccupationCarpenter
Age at embarkation37
Next of kinWife, Mrs Mary McKay Stewart Langley, c/o Post Office, Dunedin
Enlistment date29 June 1916
Place of enlistmentTrentham
Rank on embarkationRifleman
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 9th Reinforcements to 3rd Battalion, G Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board HMNZT 66 Willochra on 16 October 1916
Final rankPrivate
Final unit3rd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment
FateCommenced return to New Zealand 24 August 1918
Discharge date23 December 1918
Other details

War service: Western Front

Embarked Wellington, 16 October 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 29 December 1916, and marched in to Sling Camp, and taken on strength, 3rd Bn, Auckland Infantry Regiment.

Proceeded overseas to France, 28 May 1917.

Detached for duty with Army Service Corps, 5 July 1917; rejoined 3rd Bn, in the field, 9 August 1917.

Reported absent, 28 September 1917; rejoined Bn, 29 September 1917.

Detached to No 4 Company, NZ Engineers, 29 September 1917; rejoined 3rd Bn, AIR, 20 October 1917.

Detached to 4th Field Company Engineers, 13 November 1917.

Wounded in action, 13 March 1918 (gassed: mustard shell), and admitted to No 19 Field Ambulance, and transferred same day to 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station; to 54th (London) General Hospital, 15 March 1918; to England, 26 March 1918, and admitted to Southwark Military Hospital, 27 March 1918. Transferred to No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, 11 April 1918.

Classified unfit by Medical Board, 23 May 1918, and placed on NZ Roll.

Discharged on furlough from No 1 NZ General Hospital, 28 May 1918, to report to NZ Discharge Depot, Torquay, 11 June 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Plymouth on board HT. Ionic', 24 August 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in action: gas poisoning), 23 December 1918.

Total war service: 2 years 179 days (of which 1 year 359 days was abroad)

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Died of pleurisy and lobar pneumonia.
Date of death16 July 1932 Christchurch
Age at death53
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 43, p. 31
Archives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805

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