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GOLDSMAN, Alexander Rennie
(Service number 3/580)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/05/1888	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date	17 April 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Avenue Rd, Timaru
Occupation	Mercer for R.A. Scott & Co, Princess St., Dunedin
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	G. Goldsman (Father), Avenue Rd, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	No.1 Stationary Hospital, MedicalCorps
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Medical Corps
Date	21 May 1915
Transport	Marama (transferred to Moldavia for Suez)
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Sydney, Australia (transferred for Suez)

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16, Eygpt Expeditionary Force 1916, Salonika Balkan 1915-16, Western Europe 1916-18
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

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (February 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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