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ANDERSON, John Allan
(Service number 6/402)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Elizabeth Street, Timaru
Occupation	Traveller (John Edmond and Co.)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Samuel ANDERSON, Elizabeth Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Invalided back to Egypt by accidental injury. 20 August 1915, wounded for second time., at Gallipoli. Wounded (for 3rd time) in the left arm and the left leg, and admitted to hospital on 20 September 1916.

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Death

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Biographical Notes

John Allan ANDERSON. From the Territorials, he enrolled and passed the examination on 12 August 1914, in a very lively and busy Drill Shed; he was not one of those rejected because they were over age or under age, insufficiently developed, had no experience, or were over weight (the regulation weight was 12 stone). John was one of the Zingari footballers given a send-off by their club-mates in the Grosvenor Hotel on 13 August 1914. After recovering in Egypt from an accidental injury, John was employed in the Records Office. He then applied to be transferred to one of the reinforcements passing through, and returned to Gallipoli on about 8 August 1915.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [11 April 2014]; Timaru Herals, 13 August 1914, 15 September 1915, 9 October 1916 (Papers Past) [11 April 2014; 10 August 2014; 01 September 2014]

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