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DAVIS, John
(Service number 8/561)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Sandymount, Dunedin
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Michael Davis (father), Sandymount, Dunedin
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	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	4th Otago Company
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli, Messines
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

Wounded at Gallipoli

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	7 June 1917	Age	32
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	St Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	II. L. 12
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial (as J Davis? or is this another?)

Biographical Notes

son of Michael & Janet Davis. Born at Sandymount, Otago Peninsula

Sources

Cenotaph Jan 2014

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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