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DONOVAN, John
(Service number 24146)

St Josephs Parish memorial, Temuka — (Courtesy of L Naughton )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	10/02/1871	Place of Birth	County Cork, Ireland

Enlistment Information

Date	17 January 1916	Age	45
Address at Enlistment	Kerrytown, South Canterbury, NZ
Occupation	Cattle Dealer
Previous Military Experience	3rd Auckland Regiment; Samoan Expeditionary Force, In Apia, Samoa (10/2/1915)
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Michael. Donovan (Father), Drenoch, County Cork, Ireland
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Fit for service

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	13th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal
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

9 June 1917 to 22 September 1917 - Seriously ill, pneumonia; Discharged as no longer physically fit for war service

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	5 June 1919	Age	48
Place of Death	Temuka, New Zealand
Cause	Died on account of illness contracted on active service
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery, Temuka, Timaru District, New Zealand
Memorial Reference	Soldiers Plot
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Temuka War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [4/09/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. 11372806 99904 30502) [4/8/2013];

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Researched and Written by

Patrina Buchanan

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