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INGLIS, Lindsay Merritt
(Service number 24/23)

Aliases
First Rank	Lieutenant	Last Rank	Major General (WW2)

Birth

Date	16/05/1894	Place of Birth	Mosgiel

Enlistment Information

Date	30 April 1915	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	149 Stafford Street, Timaru
Occupation	Law Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	J.H. Inglis (father), Solicitor, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Battalion
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	NZ Rifle Brigade
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui, Tahiti, Aparima, Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian, Western Europe
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	17 March 1966	Age	71
Place of Death	Hamilton
Cause
Notices	Internal Affairs Notification, Military personnel file
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of James Hunter and Annie Inglis (nee Kirkland) of Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); SCRoll web submission by A Munro, 31 July 2018

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ted Hansen, SC branch NZSG

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