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FERRIER, Gilbert Colin Cunninghame
(Service number 91039)

Lieutenant C Ferrier — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Waimataitai School War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Timaru Boys High School Memorial Library plaque (1914-1918), pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Colin (left) and William Hedley Ferrier — (Courtesy of J Parsloe )

Aliases	Aka - Colin
First Rank	Lieutenant	Last Rank	Second Lieutenant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience	Territorial Force, 2nd Lieutenant, (South Canterbury Regiment) 1911
Marital Status
Next of Kin
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	UK Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Regiment Service/ Royal Fusiliers
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
Date
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	7th Battalion Attd. 4th Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European (Ypres)
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	11 November 1914	Age	24
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West- Vlaanderen Belgium
Memorial Reference	Panel 6 and 8
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library); Waimataitai School War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Timaru photographer William Ferrier and his wife Eva Beatrice of 71 Grey Rd, Timaru, New Zealand

Sources

Commonwealth War Graves Commission website [28 August 2013]. NZ Archives [3/09/2013]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Patrina Buchanan

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