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WAGSTAFF, Arthur
(Service number 798)

Private A Wagstaff — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

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

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	87 Pitt Street, Reffern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Thomas Wagstaff (father), Bracken Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	Australian Imperial Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Australian Imperial Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	13th Battalion
Date	1 December 1914
Transport	HMAT Ulysses
Embarked From	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Australian Imperial Force, 13th Battalion

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	29 April 1915	Age
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	39
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library); Waimataitai School War Memorial Australian War Memorial. Roll of HonourAustralian War Memorial Embarkation roll.

Biographical Notes

Son of Thomas and Beatrice M. Wagstaff of Timaru

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013,CWGC records date of death as 29th April, 1915

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