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PARR, George
(Service number 24219)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	01/03/1883	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Edward PARR (mother), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	13th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport, England

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Discharge

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Death

Date	13 April 1955	Age
Place of Death	Geraldine
Cause
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New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Edward PARR. Brother of Cuthbert and Stephen PARR and cousins of George and Charles VERITY who also served in WWI.

Victoria Jaenecke recounts (of the Parr and Verity cousins): "Their mothers were sisters, Mary Ann and Fanny Gould, of 'The Waterfalls' farm 20 km from Pleasant Point."

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 November 2014]; SCRoll web submission by V Jaenecke, 16 April 2015

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