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MAZE, Francis Livingstone
(Service number 6/1620)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	1 March 1895	Place of Birth	Milford

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Ohape, Temuka
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs J. MAZE (mother), Ohape, Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
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

Wounded and gassed and admitted to hospital on 16 October 1917. (Previously had been through the Gallipoli campaign & nealrly 3 years in France without a scratch.)

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	31 August 1972	Age	77 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 180, Plot 623
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of John & Jessie (nee BROWN) MAZE. Married Catherine Helen Mabel McDONALD (Rena) in 1925. Catherine died in 1981 & is buried in Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch. Brother John MAZE also served in WWI. Cousin Norman MAZE was killed in action in 1918 & cousin Allan also served.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [20 October 2013]; TDC headstone image, Temuka Cemetery [22 October 2013]; Timaru Herald, 3 November 1917 (Papers Past) [16 November 2013].

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