Sgt. Gilbert Hay

Address before enlistment: Fire - station, Litchfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand | Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion | Service No. WWI 6/58 | Originally reported as a Prisoner of war in German hands; changed to killed in action on 18.2.1917 on Court of Inquiry's findings.- Chronicles of N.Z.E.F. 5.9.1917, p.33. | Next of kin Thomas Hay, Fiblister, Lerwick, Scotland.

Sources

1. Cenotaph: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/...

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Sergeant in CIR, file number 6/58.

Sources

1. New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/nzefrohHA-HE.html / Ref 10.4.2021