Walter WING

Regimental number6/3932
OccupationLabourer
Next of kinWife, Mrs K Wing, 491 St Asaph Street, Christchurch
Previous military serviceServed in South Africa (Boer War).
Rank on embarkationLance Corporal
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 9th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board SS Maunganui on 8 January 1916
Final rankLance Corporal
Final unit2nd Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
FateDied of wounds 17 September 1916
Age at death from cemetery records40
Place of burialDartmoor Cemetery (Plot II, Row A, Grave No 86), Becordel-Becourt, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Wife: Kate Wing, The Bell Hotel, Uckfield, Sussex, England
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 21, p. 23

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