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GOW, John Murray
(Service number 6/1543)

Private J M Gow — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Chalmers Church memorial plaque, photographed in 2010 — South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.28 (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	28/12/1887	Place of Birth	Glasgow

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Care of Mrs BELL, 26 High Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Engineer (Shaw Savill & Co, Timaru)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	George GOW (brother), Harbour Road, Wigtown, Scotland
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory 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

11 Oct 1915 reported dangerously ill with enteric.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	15 July 1915	Age
Place of Death	Mudros
Cause	Died of disease - enteric
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	East Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece
Memorial Reference	II. A. 12.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Chalmers Church Memorial

Biographical Notes

Brother George GOW, of Wigtown, Scotland, was next of kin for John. Both parents were deceased when John Murray GOW enlisted in 1915. John was well known in Timaru. his medals were to be sent in 1922 to Mr George GOW at 21 Hayfield St, Glasgow, later of Auchantoshen Distillery, Dalmuir, near Glasgow.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [15 September 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5539 0046366) [30 March 2014]; CWGC [15 September 2013]; Timaru Herald, 9 October 1915, Otago Daily Times, 19 July 1915 & 11 October 1915 (PapersPast) [5 November 2013, 15 September 2013]

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