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ELDER, Paul Austin
(Service number 23/22)

Paul Elder (service no.23/22) — (Courtesy of A Downey )

Those pictured include: 23/21 Captain Alan Innes Walker of B Company 1st New Zealand Rifles Battalion, a Lieutenant Jones (possibly 21/20 Lieutenant Thomas Henry Jones, Army Pay Department attached to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade), 23/22 Lieutenant Paul Austin Elder of B Company, 23/7 Lieutenant Duncan Buchanan MacFarlane (killed in action at Messines 8 June 1917), 23/9 Lieutenant John Richmond Cowles and 23/23 Second Lieutenant Humphery Holderness of D Company

Shared under a CC BY-ND-NC 3.0 NZ license from http://nam.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1444 (National Army Museum of New Zealand 1990.409)

Aliases
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank	Captain

Birth

Date	06/10/1893	Place of Birth	Wellington

Enlistment Information

Date	24 December 1914	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	Waihi School, Winchester
Occupation	Teacher
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs J. Elder (mother), 66 Aurora Tce, Wellington
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	1st New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	B Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt, France
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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	11 June 1972	Age	79
Place of Death	Masterton
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Masterton Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Area plan III, Row 12, Plot PAE
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Austin Alison and Josephine Neville Elder nee O'Meara. Paul served in Egypt, sailing for France on 16 April 1916. He served on the Somme in 1916, Messine in 1917, and again at the Somme in 1918. During this time he was wounded four times.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); NZ Births, Deaths, and Marirages at https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/; Archives New Zealand

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG; Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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