SOUTHERN William
SA5256 8th Contingent, South Africa
11/1860 Trooper, Wellington Mounted Rifles, WWI
8736 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION
Military Medal
Gazetted 19 March 1918, p3473
For acts of gallantry in the field at Ras El Nagb - 14 November 1917

KNOWN AWARDS
Military Medal
Queen's South Africa Medal
Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901
1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

NOTES
Born 18 June 1879 Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Died by suicide 26 October 1935 Tauranga, New Zealand
Buried Anglican Cemetery, Tauranga, New Zealand [Block SEC 11, Row 17, Plot 33]
BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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