THOMPSON, Vincent Lawrence
(Service number 24/1212)
| First Rank | Rifleman | Last Rank | Rifleman |
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Birth
| Date | 22/01/1894 | Place of Birth | New Plymouth |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 29 May 1915 | Age | 21 |
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| Address at Enlistment | Collingwood Street, Eltham, New Zealand | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | T. Thompson (father), Collingwood Street, Eltham, New Zealand | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | D Company | ||
| Date | 9 October 1915 | ||
| Transport | Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington, New Zealand | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
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Military Awards
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| Service Medals | 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal | ||
Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 29 April 1974 | Age | 80 |
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| Place of Death | waimate | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Waimate Cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | St Patrick's (Waimate) Memorial list (June 2015) | ||
Biographical Notes
Son of Thomas and Mary Theresa (Power) who lived on Parsonage Road Waimate. Before enlistment Vincent was a farmhand at Eltham, Taranaki.
After the war he married Catherine Cecila O'Sllivan in Stratford in 1920, then shifted to Waimate where he died fifty years later (29 April 1974).
Sources
SCRoll web submission from M Johnston, 10 November 2014); Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (11 November 2014)
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Researched and Written by
Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum); Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG
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