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CROPLEY, Edward Fox
(Service number 6/2350)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	31 January 1875	Place of Birth	Sydney, Australia

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Conway, via Parnassus, Canterbury
Occupation	Cook
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	married
Next of Kin	Mrs E J Cropley (wife) Hororata, Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
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	Canteriobury Infantry 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

Death

Date	5 February 1921	Age	55
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

husband of Emily Jane Cropley (nee Pearson) married Sydney, Australia. of Criterion Hotel, Waimate. Invalided home 29 Jan 1916. Marriage date given variously as 2.7.1887, 3.7.1894 or 4.7.1897

Sources

Cenotaph [20 October 2014]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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