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SHAW, David John
(Service number 14023)

Opihi College Roll of Honour — Made by Opihi College teacher David Ellena, 2015 (Courtesy of Kate Manson, Opihi College )

Aliases
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	J.W. Shaw (father), Pukerau, Otago, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	5th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion, 3rd

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	30 March 1918	Age	25
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Temuka War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of John W and Mary M Shaw, of Gore, Invercargill

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