STAPLES, Samuel Walden
(Service number 6/2761)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Private |
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Birth
| Date | 14/08/1888 | Place of Birth | Gore |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Morven | ||
| Occupation | Farm labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs M. J. STAPLES (mother), 7 Brunswick Street, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 6th Reinforcements | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Canterbury Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 14 August 1915 | ||
| Transport | Willochra or Tofua | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | |
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| Last Unit Served With | Canterbury Regiment | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 10 May 1961 | Age | 74 years |
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Timaru cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
Smuel Walden Staples, the youngest son of Thomas Seamore and Mary Jane (née Smithson) Staples, was born in 1886 at Gore and attended school there. His father died in 1909 at Gore. When he enlisted at the outbreak of war, he was working at Morven and his mother was living in Timaru. It appears that the family may have lived in South Canterbury at an earlier date, as his oldest brother, John Thomas Staples who served in the South African War, was said to have been born at Waimate in 1880.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [02 January 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [02 January 2017]
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