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ANDREWS, James Raitt Dickson
(Service number 24/31)

Aliases
First Rank Rifleman Last Rank Private

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Railways, Taihape
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin H.T. Andrews (father), Prince of Wales Hotel, Dunedin
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 2nd Battalion, NZ Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Machine-gun Section
Date 10 September 1915
Transport Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From Wellington Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With NZ Machine Gun Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 27 October 1916 Age
Place of Death France
Cause Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Estaires Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
Memorial Reference III. M. 14.
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Winchester War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of H. T. Andrews, of Dunedin,

Sources

Cenotaph Aug 2013

External Links

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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