Regimental number | 11/1996 |
Address | Featherston |
Marital status | Single |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Kate Whishaw, Featherston |
Rank on embarkation | Trooper |
Enlistment status | Volunteer |
Unit name | New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 8th Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Wellington on board Tofua on |
Final rank | Trooper |
Final unit | New Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Squadron |
Fate | Died of disease |
Age at death from cemetery records | 26 |
Place of burial | Cairo War Memorial Cemetery (Row O, Grave No 327), Egypt |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John Henley Whishaw and Kathrine Elizabeth Whishaw |
Family/military connections | Brother: 10/154 Lance Sergeant Harry Guthrie WHISHAW, 2nd Bn, Wellington Infantry Regiment, killed in action, 3 July 1916. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Palestine Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Miscellaneous details | Nominal Roll Vol. 1: Wellington Mounted Rifles/Eighth |
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