Leiutenant Harold Dixon Buddle

Lieutenant Harold Dixon Buddle, Reg No 24344, New Zealand Rifle Brigade 22nd Reinforcements, - J Company

CAMPAIGNS

• Passchendaele

MILITARY AWARDS

• British War Medal (1914-1920)
• Victory Medal

WOUNDS AND DISEASES

• Seriously wounded, head and shoulders France 12 October 1917
• Hospital (Rouen) 26 October -7 November 1917 and in the UK until 10 August 1918

DISCHARGE DATE

• 28 May 1919

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Harold Dixon Buddle was born 10th August 1884, the younger son and third child of Thomas and Emma Buddle of 26 Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland

His Grandfather the Reverend Thomas Buddle was one of the founders of the Methodist Church in New Zealand, who had accompanied local Maori to the great Waikato feast in Remuera in May 1844
Harold's father Thomas Buddle was the senior partner of the law firm of Buddle, Richmond and Buddle, constituted in 1891

Harold attended Auckland University College(now the University of Auckland) and before enlistment aged 31 years on 5th April 1916