Full Name Charles William Gawn Forename(s) Charles William Surname Gawn War World War I, 1914-1918 Serial No. 13/1122 First Known Rank Trooper Next of Kin Mrs McGuire (sister), Dunedin, New Zealand Marital Status Single Enlistment Address 73 Grey Street, Auckland, New Zealand Military District Auckland Body on Embarkation Samoan Advance Party 6th Reinforcements Embarkation Unit Auckland Mounted Rifles Embarkation Date 15 August 1914 14 August 1915 Place of Embarkation Wellington, New Zealand Transport HMNZT 1 HMNZT 2 Vessel Moeraki or Monowai Destination Apia, Samoa Suez, Egypt Page on Nominal Roll 257 Archives NZ source Military personnel file Sources Used Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919

The information in this record is not correct in that Charles William Gawn is not a brother of Mrs. McGuire but in fact she was his mother as can be seen in the New Zealand birth records