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SULLIVAN, John
(Service number 38991)

Aliases Jack
First Rank Private Last Rank

Birth

Date 14 May 1873 Place of Birth Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married. One daughter - Daisy Clarenda Mary SULLIVAN (Mary) who was born in 1902 in Dunedin.
Next of Kin Mrs K. M. SULLIVAN (wife), North Belt, Temuka
Religion Roman Catholic
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 22nd Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date 16 February 1917
Transport Navua
Embarked From Wellington Destination Devonport, England
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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 July 1966 Age 93 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference Block 20, Plot 135
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of John & Johanna (nee COLLINS) SULLIVAN. Came from Skibbereen, Co Cork, Ireland, to Otago, NZ by the 'Otago' in 1894, with his family, aged at 9 mths. Married Kate Matilda COMYN (Matty), in 8 April 1901, at St Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [21 July 2013]; CCC burial records, Bromley Cemetery [2013]; The Sullivans - www.doughertynz.com (Google search) [24 August 2013]

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