McCLELLAND, Samuel
(Service number 6/1650)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Private |
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Birth
| Date | 10 July 1897 | Place of Birth |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | About 18 | |
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| Address at Enlistment | Geraldine, New Zealand | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Thomas Warwick McClelland (Father) Winchester, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 3rd Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 14 February 1915 | ||
| Transport | Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | |
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| Last Unit Served With | New Zealand Machine Gun Corp | ||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | Egypt 1915-16, Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Gallipoli 1915, Western Europe 1917-18 | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 30 May 1918 | Age | 21 |
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| Place of Death | France | ||
| Cause | Killed in action | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, Somme, France | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Temuka RSA Roll of Honour; Winchester War Memorial; Rangitata Island School Honours Board; Temuka War Memorial | ||
Biographical Notes
Third son of Thomas Warwick and Mary Jane Gordon McClelland of Winchester, New Zealand. Samuel's probable siblings are Margaret Sibella (b.1894), William Thomas (b.1896), Christopher Gordon (b.1899), and Winifred Jane (b.1910).
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (Oct 2013); CWGC (Nov 2013); NZ War Graves (Nov 2013); NZBDM 1897/16403; War Census CD (Nov 2013); see also Winsome Grffin's family history pages at http://winsomegriffin.com/Benbow/ThomasWarnickMcClelland.html
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Researched and Written by
Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG
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