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MEE, Alexander Reginald
(Service number 52095)

Alexander Mee, circa 1917 — (Courtesy of N McLaughlin )

Page 1 (of 2) - letter G M Liepst (NZANS) to Mrs C A Mee, 22 August 1919 — (Courtesy of N McLaughlin )

Page 2 (of 2) - letter G M Liepst (NZANS) to Mrs C A Mee, 22 August 1919 — (Courtesy of N McLaughlin )

Claremont Hall plaque — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.04)

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

Aliases	Uncle Alec
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	10/02/1896	Place of Birth	Pleasant Point

Enlistment Information

Date	30 March 1917	Age	20 years five months
Address at Enlistment	Aylesbury, Malvern County, Canterbury
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience	1st Mounted Rifles
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Thomas William Jones MEE (father)
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Class A (varicocele moderate)

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Egypt and Palestine
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	33rd Reinforcements Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	11/13/1917
Transport	Tufoa no. 98
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	33rd NZMR

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1917-18
Service Medals	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

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 October 1918	Age	22
Place of Death	69th General hospital, Alexandria. Belah Palestine
Cause	Malaria fever
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Deir AL-Balah, Deir AL-Balah, Gaza Strip [8 miles s.W. Gaza], Darfield War Memorial
Memorial Reference	Grave N543 [Army records] Plot: B. 212 [Find a Grave]
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Claremont Memorial; Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library)

Biographical Notes

Mother: Caroline Agnes ORTON, b 2 Jan 1868 Pleasant Point. Education Pleasant Point and TBHS

Sources

Accessed 15/08/2013 NZBDM, Cenotaph, Ancestry.com, http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/;SCRoll web submission by N McLaughlin 8 January 2020 (correcting fathers name to Thomas William Jones Mee )

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Researched and Written by

Cynthia McCaughan (SC branch NZSG)

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