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Private WILLIAM GORDON HANSON

Service Number: 69001
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Infantry

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOURAIL NEW ZEALAND WAR CEMETERY

1. 24.

New Caledonia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Pte. Stephen Hanson, Otago Regt. (killed in action in France, 15th September, 1916) and of Frances Biddy Hanson, of Wellington City, New Zealand; stepson of Thomas Illing, of Wellington City.
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Buried or commemorated at

BOURAIL NEW ZEALAND WAR CEMETERY
New Caledonia
Number of casualties: 246
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