caption branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date alt rank image article_title name
lieutenant colonel william malone 25px new zealand military forces wellington infantry battalion 08 august 1915 gallipoli , turkey kent , england new zealand mentioned in dispatches -lrb- 2 -rrb- gallipoli campaign 24 january 1859 a with a cane full length view of a man in uniform lieutenant colonel lc w g malone.jpg william george malone
 william george malone
william george malone

lieutenant colonel william george malone -lrb- 24 january 18598 august 1915 -rrb- was an officer in the new zealand military forces who served in the first world war .
he commanded the wellington infantry battalion during the gallipoli campaign , and was killed in action during the battle of chunuk bair .
born in england , malone emigrated to new zealand in 1880 and joined the new zealand armed constabulary .
after two years service in the taranaki region , he worked at opunake and later took up farming on land he bought with his brother near stratford .
he studied to become a lawyer and worked in new plymouth in partnership with other lawyers but later set up his own practice in stratford .
a volunteer in new zealand 's militia , he helped raised the stratford rifle volunteers .
when the militia was abolished and replaced with the territorial force , he was made commander of 11th regiment -lrb- taranaki rifles -rrb- .
following the outbreak of the first world war , he volunteered for service with the new zealand expeditionary force and was appointed commander of the wellington infantry battalion .
he led the battalion through training in egypt and during the gallipoli campaign until his death at chunuk bair in gallipoli .
