Won 2 medals
FULL NAME
Sydney Ferriday Hancock
RANK LAST HELD
Lance Corporal
FORENAME(S)
Sydney Ferriday
SURNAME
Hancock
WAR
World War I, 1914-1918
SERIAL NO.
26/106
GENDER
Male
FIRST KNOWN RANK
Rifleman
OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT
Farmer
NEXT OF KIN
Mrs Emma Hancock (mother), Juliet Street, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand
BODY ON EMBARKATION
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
EMBARKATION UNIT
4th Battalion, B Company
EMBARKATION DATE
5 February 1916
PLACE OF EMBARKATION
Wellington, New Zealand
TRANSPORT
HMNZT 42
HMNZT 43
HMNZT 44
VESSEL
Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua
DESTINATION
Suez, Egypt
NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER
24
PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL
23
LAST UNIT SERVED
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion, 3rd
PLACE OF DEATH
Ypres, Belgium
DATE OF DEATH
12 October 1917
AGE AT DEATH
24
YEAR OF DEATH
1917
CAUSE OF DEATH
Killed in action
MEMORIAL NAME
Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
MEMORIAL REFERENCE
NZ Apse, Panel 7