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PATERSON, James Hay
(Service number 2/1937)

Aliases
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Birth

Date	02/10/1885	Place of Birth	Winchester

Enlistment Information

Date	17 May 1915	Age	29
Address at Enlistment	Kurunui, Winchester, New Zealand
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Paterson (brother), Winchester, Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height: 5ft 8in. 156lb. Brown hair, grey eyes.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Field Artillery
Date
Transport	HMNZT 24 Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian (1915-1916); Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1916); Western European (1916-1918)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	13 May 1919	Reason	Termination of period of engagement

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

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Centopath database ( 9 August 2015); Military personnel file (9 August 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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