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SCANLAN, John Michael
(Service number 29194)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Corporal

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Denis Scanlan (father), Oxford Street, South Dunedin, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 18th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date 11 October 1916
Transport Tofua
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Plymouth, England
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Light Railway Operating Squadron

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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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 4 November 1917 Age
Place of Death Belgium
Cause Died of sickness
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference III. AA. 12.
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru

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