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CODYRE, Allan Erskine
(Service number 6/107A)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	18/03/1895	Place of Birth	Greymouth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- Captain Tait, Le Cren's Terrace, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Martin Codyre, Granity, Westport
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	MainBody
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT4, 11 Tahiti, Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
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	7 August 1915	Age	20
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Kia
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair, (NZ) Memorial,CHunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipolo, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 12
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

son of Martin Lucasand Sarah Ann Codyre (nee McInnes), Granity, Westport. Brother Martin Henry Codyre b1897 d1964

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Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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