Profile

MacRAE, Roderick
(Service number 41340)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	13/12/1887	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	1 March 1917	Age	29
Address at Enlistment	Hatuma
Occupation	Farm hand for Trustees Murdoch McKay
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Farquhar Macrae, (mother), Sallachy, Ardelve, Ross-shire, Scotland
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

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	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, H Company
Date	26 April 1917
Transport	Pakeha
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Europe 1917-18
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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial (as McRae?)

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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