WW1 Military callup Gazette Notice Number Vis-a-Vis Service Number?

[Tgapitbull]

The New Zealand Gazette Extraordinary published on Tuesday 8 May 1917, Wellington contains a list of those men called up for WW1 military service - link follows

http://www8.austlii.edu.au/nz/other/nz_gazette/1917/79.pdf

Alongside each name is a number - is this their WW1 Service Number?

The reason that I ask this question is that I have been researching the name Harold Eustace Hill (no family connection).  His name appears in this Gazette Notice with the number 29966 (Page 1929).  Harold's name also appears on the list of WW1 Military Defaulters 1919.  Interestingly I found him in the 1911 (Oroua) and 1914 (Rangitikei) electoral rolls and then again in 1946 (Otahuhu) (ER on Ancestry).  Perhaps he went AWOL to avoid military service?  He married Margaret Doyle in 1927 and died in 1968.

On Archway when I enter this number the record of Michael John Mulvaney 29966 comes up.  His record states this number.  I checked the above Gazette Notice for this person.  His name does not appear but that of John Joseph Mulvaney 35417 does.

When I enter the number 35417 on Archway the record of Ernest Richard Hayes comes up.

Grateful if someone is able to clarify for me whether they should be the same Number?

TPB

[spades]

Hi TPB,

I took the example of Francis Samuel ANDRADE, whose number in the Gazette list was 26999.

When I look at his file on Archway I see that his service number was 62481.

I suspect the consecutive numbers in the Gazette were used to show how many men were registered in a particular region, with service numbers assigned once they attested for the army.

Spades

[Tgapitbull]

Thanks Spades for the clarification.
TPB