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Corporal JOSEPH EVAN WELLS

Service Number: 18198
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

No. 5 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Evan Wells and Elizabeth Wells; husband of Mrs. A. E. Chadwick (formerly Wells), of Private Bag, Kaitieke, Hamilton. Native of Dunedin.
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MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 828
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