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COCKRANE, Thomas Waddell
(Service number 6/2095)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	6 Sept 1896	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Queen Street, Timaru
Occupation	Motor Mechanic
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Mr Peter Cockrane(father) Queen St, Timaru
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	20th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	13 June 1915
Transport	HMNZT 24,25,26, Maunganui, Tahiti, Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

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

Mechanic

Death

Date	19 December 1972	Age	76 years
Place of Death	Timaru, NZ
Cause	unknown
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	Possibly the W Cochrane on South School Plaque

Biographical Notes

Thomas Waddell Cochrane was the oldest son of Peter and agnes Lethen (née Waddell) Cochrane.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [04 January 2017]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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