("Pup")
Son of William Kidd & Ann McQueen Alexander
b. 1894 NZ - d. NZ

World War I, 1914-1918

Serial No.: 13/2830
First Known Rank: Trooper
Occupation before Enlistment: Labourer
Next of Kin: Thomas Kidd (brother), Blackball, near Greymouth, New Zealand
Body on Embarkation: New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Embarkation Unit: 10th Reinforcements Details, Auckland Mounted Rifles
Embarkation Date: 22 February 1916
Place of Embarkation: Wellington, New Zealand
Vessel: Waihora Destination: Suez, Egypt
Nominal Roll Footnotes: In Albany Hospital

Badly wounded in November 1916 at the Battle of the Dardenelles, Gallipoli.
Returned to New Zealand

Tel-al Kebir, Egypt (1916)
Etaples, France (1916)
Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey
Pup enlisted on 13 October 1915 at Trentham, Upper Hutt Wellington, aged 22 years. He was recorded as 5', 10½" tall, with a dark complexion, black hair and blue-grey eyes. His last residence was St Kilda House, Queen Street, Auckland. His next of kin was his brother Thomas KIDD, of Blackball. Pup was at Tel-al Kebir in Egypt in May 1916. During the Gallipoli landings and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, Tel-al Kebir was a training centre for the First Australian Imperial Force Reinforcements, No 2 Australian stationary hospital, and also a site of a large prisoner of war camp. Some 40,000 Australians camped in a small tent city at Tel-al Kebir of six miles in length. A military railway was eventually constructed to take troops from the camp to their vessels in Alexandria and elsewhere for embarkation to Gallipoli landings. The Tel-al Kebir village was described by an Australian soldier in 1916 as a very dirty little place with a few dirty shops in it. Pup is recorded as being wounded in France on 14 November 1916. It's said he was very badly injured at Gallipoli (Turkey) in the Battle of the Dardenelles. He served a total of 1 year 237 days, of which 1 year 77 days was served overseas. He was discharged on 6 June 1917, being unfit for service on account of wounds received in action.Pup's nephew Frederick ("Snowy") FOX remembered seeing his uncle leaving to go to war.
Pup's niece Dardenella ("Della") GEAR was named after the Battle of the Dardenelles when born in 1915.

Source: Military documents; Auckland Cenotaph