Profile

DEPREE, John Griffiths
(Service number 36741)

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Aliases
First Rank	Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Motor driver
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs E.E Depree (wife), 135 Onepu Rd, Lyall Bay, Wellington
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	25th Reinforcements Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company
Date	26 April 1917
Transport	Turakina
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

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	24 August 1918	Age
Place of Death	Bapaume, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	III. A. 4
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

husband of Evelyn Ensor Depree of 160 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland

Sources

Cenotaph Jan 2014

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

Tell us more

Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!