Thomas Moffett
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Thomas Moffett (1896 - 1917)

Thomas Moffett
Born in Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealandmap
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Thomas Moffett is an Anzac who served in World War One.
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Thomas Moffett Died of Wounds during World War I.

Thomas Moffett was a farmer working for W.H. Harris on Robson Road, Stratford before the war. His family lived in Hawera, later moving to Purangi, Inglewood.

Private Thomas Moffett NZ:28177 is the son of Robert and Marian Moffett of Purangi, Inglewood, New Zealand. He signed up for the war at Trentham on the 27th June 1916.

He served with the Wellington Battalion, NZEF 1st Company, 2nd Battalion; Ruahine Company.

He embarked from Wellington on the 16th October 1916, reached Sling Camp in England on the 29th December, and joined his battalion in France on the 1st March 1917.

He was killed in action in the field in Belgium just a few months later, on the 7th June 1917, [1] and was buried in Wellington Cemetery, later the Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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  1. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17511, 21 June 1917, Page 5




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