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ELLIS, Rowland George
(Service number 72207)

Timaru South School Memorial plaque, 2010 — Mounted on a brick pillar at the School's front gate (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	11 December 1897	Place of Birth	Timaru, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	2 May 1918	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	Otekaieke, North Otago, New Zealand
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience	2nd (Sth Canterbury) Regimemt
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Elizabeth Mary Ellis (Mother) , Otekaieke, North Otago, New Zealand
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information	Fit for service

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	37th Reinforcements, B Company
Date	5 September 1918
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Liverpool, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Infantry

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal
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	28 October 1918	Age	21
Place of Death	Surrey, England
Cause	Died of disease (Pleurisy)
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Brookwood, Cemetery, Surrey, England.
Memorial Reference	Grave No 181980
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru South School WWI Memorial plaque

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [9/9/3013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. 773 460 159107 8908445) [11/11/2013];

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Patrina Buchanan

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