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THATCHER, Henry Lane
(Service number 7/2162)

First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J. Thatcher (mother), Woodbury, Geraldine, New Zealand

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	9th Reinforcements Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals

Death

Date	16 August 1917	Age
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Memorial or Cemetery	Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Commines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium
Memorial Reference	IV. C. 16.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine Church Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial; Woodbury War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Henry Thatcher was the son of Mrs. J. E. Thatcher, of Woodbury, New Zealand, and the late John Thatcher.

The 1913 Timaru Technical School roll book lists Henry was studying "arch. drawing", giving his occupation as carpenter and his address as 21 Gray Road (Timaru).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC; SCRoll web submission from Julie James, Mountainview High School, 23 March 2015

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Researched and Written by

Lois Shears, SC branch NZSG

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