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WHYTE, Robert Holmes
(Service number 14174)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Carter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	James Heron Whyte (father), 16 Clyde Street, Timaru, 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	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st 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	12 October 1917	Age	22
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	N.Z. Apse, Panel 2.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Robert Whyte was the son of James Heron Whyte and Ann, his wife, of 15 Clyde St., Timaru, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, April 2014

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