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Final rank:

Driver (WWI)

Sergeant (WWII)

First name/s

Thomas Charles

Last name

WORRALL

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

6/2968 (WWI)
1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment

801193 (WWII)
Headquarters Company

Also known as

Date of birth

04/12/1892

Place of birth

Middlesex, London, England

Date of death

24/9/1948

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1948/19940

Headstone/grave location

Unknown

Next of kin

Mrs Mary Jane Worrall (mother), Lee House, Shibden, Halifax, England
and 22 Alderley Rd, Wilmslow Cheshire, England

Additional information

Employed as a salesman with Cook Islands Trading Company on WWI enlistment. Left Rarotonga September 1914 by ship and enlisted at Trentham Military Camp near Wellington 21 June 1915.

Wounded in action in the field 16 September 1916 (gunshot wound to left leg and compound fracture). Returned to New Zealand on the hospital ship SS Marama 13 January 1917 and discharged 21 August 1917 as no longer physically fit for war service on account of wounds received in action. Re-enlisted during WWII.

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