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McCARTHY, Eugene Francis
(Service number 25279)

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	Private

Birth

Date	25/09/1887	Place of Birth	Oamaru, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	3 August 1916	Age	28
Address at Enlistment	C/- Post Office, Glenavy, South Canterbury
Occupation	Farm Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Patrick McCarthy (father) Glenavy, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Miss Minnie McCarthy, (sister) Glenavy, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
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	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	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	6 July 1917	Age	31
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Missing, believed killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of the late Patrick and Minnie McCarthy. Native of Glenavy,South Canterbury, New Zealand

Sources

Archway (June 2014); Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (January 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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