5/897 - Driver

Alfred George

PILLENGER

Main Body (Army Service Corps)

Timeline


1915

1915

11 December

Enlistment

Auckland Military District

Initial training

Avondale, Auckland

1915

18 December

Transfer to England

S.S. Ruapehu

1916

1916

3 February

Marched in to the Company Training Camp, Falmouth

1916

1 March

Promoted Corporal

1916

9 March

Embarked for France

1916

16 March

From the Front

The Company joined the underground warfare in the North of France

Chantecler, Sector of Arras

1916

23 May

Admitted to hospital with injury to the left knee

1916

27 May

Embarked for England

1916

27 May

Admitted to hospital

1916

12 August

Invalided

Transfer to New Zealand

S.S. Willochra

1916

26 October

Final discharge

End of Service

Decoration

British War Medal
British War Medal

Victory Medal
Victory Medal

Sources and bibliography

  • Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Wellington, Government Printer, 1916, p. 8.

How to cite this page

Anthony BYLEDBAL, “Alfred George PILLENGER (5/897)”, New Zealand Tunnellers, 2024 (2009). Accessed: 11 May 2024. URL: https://www.nztunnellers.com/roll/details.php?id=682