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McALLISTER, Peter
(Service number 6/4100)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	29/03/1879	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	17 November 1915	Age	36
Address at Enlistment	C/- R.S. Kain, Morven, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Occupation	Fireman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J. Hudson (Sister) Adbury, Hawera,New Zealand
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	10th Reinforcements,Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	3 April 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion,C Company

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Western Europe 1916-17
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	15 October 1917	Age	38
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	New Irish Farm Cemetery, Leper,West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	V. G. 17
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Mrs Elizabeth McAllister, Clauehaig Via Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Brother of Mrs J. Hudson, Hawera, New Zealand

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database(Oct 2013); Archways (June 2014); CWGC (Oct 2013); NZ War Graves (Oct 2013); Not on NZBDM (Oct 2013)

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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