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DANIEL, Edwin Frank
(Service number 7/37)

Trooper E F Daniel — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Kingsdown Hall War Memorial plaque, 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.08)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	05/03/1905	Place of Birth	Papanui, Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Kingsdown, Timaru
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Edwin Herbert Daniel, Kingsdown, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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	22 August 1915	Age	24
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hill 60 (NZ) Memorial, Hill 60 Cemetery, Turkey
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Kingsdown Hall War Memorial plaque

Biographical Notes

Son of Edwin Herbert and Helen Daniel, of Kingsdown, Timaru

Sources

Cenotaph Jan 2014; SCRoll web submission by A Brown, 17 August 2017

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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