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PRIEST, Roy Simpson
(Service number 7/103)

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

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

Woodbury War Memorial, pictured in 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.37 (#1))

Woodbury War Memorial (World War One plaque), pictured in 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Captain

Birth

Date	12/07/1890	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Woodbury, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	W. Priest (father), Timaru, New Zealand
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	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Imperial Camel Corps (New Zealand)

Military Awards

Campaigns
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	19 April 1917	Age
Place of Death	Palestine
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Jerusalem Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Reference	Panel 1.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine Church Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial (as Capt. R Priest); Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library); Woodbury War Memorial; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Roy Priest was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Priest, of Timaru, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [3 Jan 2014]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20803003; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R7880867

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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