Norman Frederick Hastings
Major Norman Frederick Hastings, DSO (14 July 1879 – 9 August 1915) served as Officer Commanding New Zealand's 6th (Manawatu) Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment. After serving with British military units during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, he worked as an engineering fitter with the New Zealand Railways Department workshops at Petone. He enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of World War I, and served with distinction before dying of wounds after the attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, in August 1915. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (second only to the Victoria Cross for officers), was Mentioned in Despatches, and was one of only 14 members of the New Zealand Army to receive the French Legion of Honour decoration during the war
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Norman Frederick Hastings
Major Norman Frederick Hastings, DSO (14 July 1879 – 9 August 1915) served as Officer Commanding New Zealand's 6th (Manawatu) Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment. After serving with British military units during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, he worked as an engineering fitter with the New Zealand Railways Department workshops at Petone. He enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of World War I, and served with distinction before dying of wounds after the attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, in August 1915. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (second only to the Victoria Cross for officers), was Mentioned in Despatches, and was one of only 14 members of the New Zealand Army to receive the French Legion of Honour decoration during the war
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Major Norman Frederick Hasting ...... Day ceremony on 25 April 1916.
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نورمان فريدريك هاستينغز (بالإن ...... سطس 1915 في جاليبولي في تركيا.
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New Zealand
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A portrait of a soldier in a peaked cap
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World War I
*Battle of Chunuk Bair
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1879-07-14
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New Zealand Army
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Died of Wounds, Gallipoli, August 1915
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1915-08-09
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Major Norman Frederick Hastings
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Damant's Horse
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New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade
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New Zealand and Australian Division
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Rimington's Scouts and Guides
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Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment
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Major Norman Frederick Hasting ...... nour decoration during the war
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نورمان فريدريك هاستينغز (بالإن ...... سطس 1915 في جاليبولي في تركيا.
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Norman Frederick Hastings
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نورمان فريدريك هاستينغز
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Major Norman Frederick Hastings
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