Raymond Ernest WILLIAMS

Regimental number7/1666
Date of birth4 September 1893
Place of birthChristchurch
ReligionMethodist
OccupationShepherd
AddressLinwood
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21.9
Height5' 6.5"
Weight123 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs Alice Rosina Williams, 485 St Asaph Street, Linwood, Christchurch
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date23 August 1915
Place of enlistmentTrentham
Rank on embarkationTrooper
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 7th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 10 October 1915
The Mounted Rifles component of the 7th Reinforcements left New Zealand on 10 October 1915 on board two ships, 'Aparima' and 'Navua'. It is not possible from the Nominal Roll to determine on which ship an individual embarked.
FateCommenced return to New Zealand 1 February 1918
Discharge date16 April 1918
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Wellington, 10 October 1915; disembarked suez, 18 November 1915.

Taken on strength, 14th Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, from Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, 26 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force in France, 7 April 1916.

Wounded in action, 24 May 1916 (gun shot wound, right hand), and admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance; transferred to NZ Divisional Rest Station, 27 May 1916; discharged to unit, 3 June 1916; rejoined unit, in the field, 4 June 1916.

Posed to 12th Battery, 22 January 1917.

Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 5 August 1917 (inflammation, middle ear); transferred to 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 10 August 1917; to 1st South African General Hospital, Abbeville, 11 August 1917; to NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 8 September 1917.

Classified 'C' by NZ Travelling Medical Board, 30 October 1917.

Marched out to England, 10 November 1917.

Classified 'Unfit' and placed on NZ Roll, London, 12 January 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Liverpool on board HT 'Willochra', 1 February 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 16 April 1918.

War service: 2 years 237 days (of which 1 year 159 days was abroad)

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Died at Greytown Hospital, 21 February 1922 (tuberculosis).
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Canterbury Mounted Rifles/Seventh
Date of death21 February 1922 Greytown
SourcesArchives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805