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RAWSTORN, Cecil Harold Packman
(Service number 80113)

Waitohi War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

World War One plaque, Waitohi War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Timaru South School Memorial plaque, 2010 — Mounted on a brick pillar at the School's front gate (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	02/08/1898	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	25 July 1918	Age	20
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Ploughman Baxters Estate Upper Waitohi
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs D K Rawstorn (mother) care of Edward Kelland, Northdown, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Church of England
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	42nd Reinforcements, B Company
Date	8 January 1918
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	London, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade (Reserve)

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	24 November 1918	Age
Place of Death	United Kingdom
Cause	Died of cerebro spinal fever
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru South School WW1 Memorial plaque (as C H P Rawstorn?); Waitohi War Memorial (as C H P Rawstorn)

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014); SCRoll web submission by M Rawstorn, 11 May 2019

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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