Robert Wilson Auld

Corporal

Conflict:

WW1

References:

CWGC

Archives New Zealand

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Wounded in action (gunshot wound head) on 8 August 1915. Evacuated from the Dardanelles on HS Alaunia on the 13 August, and admitted to 15 General Hospital, Alexandria on 14 August. Reported as dangerously ill on 15 August and died of his wounds in 15 General Hospital on 26 August 1915:

"Corporal Auld left with the Second Reinforcements as a private, and was afterwards raised to the position of corporal. He was wounded between August 9 and 15, and admitted to the Fifteenth General Hospital, Alexandria, on August 15." [Otago Witness, Issue 3208, 8 September 1915, Page 30]

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Casualty

Service Number:

10/1178

Name:

Robert Wilson Auld

Rank:

Corporal

Date of Birth:

Not known

Next of Kin:

Thomas Auld (father), Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Enlistment Address:

Taringamotu, King-country, New Zealand

Unit:

NZEF, Wellington Regiment

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Died of wounds

Date of Death:

26 August 1915

Day of Death:

Thursday

Conflict:

WW1

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

2nd Reinforcements

Embarkation Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Embarkment Date:

14 December 1914

Transport:

HMNZT 13
HMNZT 14
HMNZT 15

Vessel:

Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter

Destination:

Suez, Egypt

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Alexandria (Chatby) Military And War Memorial Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

H. 157.

Cemetery Location:

Egypt