Dates

• Existence: 1891 - 1968

Biography

Private H.H. Stephens from Sydenham, Christchurch, joined up and was stationed in C Company, Infantry, of the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He departed for the war zone from Wellington on Saturday 14 August 1915, as a member of the Sixth Reinforcements. The echelon departed from Trentham Military Camp, arrived at Albany, Western Australia, on 24 August and Aden on 13 September, and disembarked at Suez on 19 September 1915. On 25 September the reinforcements sailed for Gallipoli from Alexandria, landing on the Greek Island of Lemnos four days later. Private Stephens's war quickly became a personal battle against dysentery which took him to England and hospital. 9 May 1916 Private Stephens arrived at the Western Front near Armentieres. On 10 July he was wounded and again evacuated to the Middlesex Hospital in England.

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