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MORRISON, James Gilbert
(Service number 8/759)

Sergeant J G Morrison — 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	Sergeant

Birth

Date	26/01/1886	Place of Birth	Waikouaiti, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age	28
Address at Enlistment	Windsor
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Sarah Morrison Clyde Street Timaru (Mother)
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantary Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915
Service Medals	1914-15 Star
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	13 July 1915	Age	29
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in Action
Notices	Timaru Herald Roll of Honour 3 August 1915 Page 2, Timaru Herald Roll of Honour 3 August 1915 Page 6, Timaru Herald Roll of Honour 4 August 1915 Page 7
Memorial or Cemetery	Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	III. D, 11
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine Church Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial? (listed as J Morrison); ; Waimate First World War Memorial?

Biographical Notes

Son of James and Mary Morrison of Waikouaiti, Otago. Promoted to Segeant at Dardanelles on 6 May 1915

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC.

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