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PORTEOUS, George James
(Service number 16120)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Blacksmith
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs T. Batt (sister), 39 Catherine Street, North Invercargill, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	15th Reinforcements New Zealand Mounted Rifles
Date	13 July 1916
Transport	Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez, Egypt
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

“… he worked for my grandfather in pleasant point … some time later he was very ill for some months … [eventually] he went back to the front, as a blacksmith … [sent] to vet-corps …”, SCRoll Web Submission from G Hillyer, 10 November 2014.

Sources

Cenotaph (10 November 2014); SCRoll web submission,G Hillyer, 8 November 2014

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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