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FINLAYSON, Ernest Mathew
(Service number 3/149A)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal, Lieutenant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/01/1889	Place of Birth	Mt Somers

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Dalgety & Co., Timaru
Occupation	Unknown; Commercial Traveller, Dalgetys
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Rev. W. Finlayson, 160 Britomart St., Wellington, New Zealand
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Ambulance, New Zealand Medical Corp; Advance Party, No 2 Field Ambulance, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Date	16 October 1914; 25 January 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic, Maheno
Embarked From	Lyttelton; Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt; Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1914-16, Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Western Europe 1916-18, Germany Army of Occupation 1919
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

Served twice, going back in 1916

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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