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WALKER, James P
(Service number 30325)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Pte

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	J. Walker (father), Maraekakaho, Hastings, 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	14th Reinforcements 2nd Battalion, (F Company )
Date	30 December 1916
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 2nd (South Canterbury) Company

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	10 May 1917	Age	23
Place of Death	France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	XXIV. G. 16.
New Zealand Memorials	2015 additions to the Tiimaru Memorial Wall

Biographical Notes

Son of James and Jane Stuart Walker, of Maraekakaha, Hawke's Bay

Sources

Paul McNicholl's list of additional names for the Tiimaru Memorial Wall (August 2013)

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