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LYALL, Angus
(Service number 15560)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	George Lyall (father), St Andrews
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	15th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	26 July 1916
Transport	Waitemata or Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devenport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of George and Helen Christina Lyall of St Andrews, South Canterbury, New Zealand. George (father) was the last manager of the Pareoa Estate. Four sons of George and Helen also served during the war: Gordon Gilmore (15927) and William Carnegie (46235) were killed in action, but Angus (15560) and Hugh (74394) returned home.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (18 March 2014); SCRoll submission by K Lyall, 25 October 2018

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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