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JAMESON, Andrew Melville
(Service number 20/15)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Captain

Birth

Date	30 March 1870	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date	12 January 1915	Age	44
Address at Enlistment	Post Office Timaru
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs A.M. Jameson (wife), Otumarama, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Relief Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Mounted Infantry
Date	27 March 1915
Transport	Talune
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Apia, Samoa

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Featherston Military Police

Military Awards

Campaigns	Samoan Relief Force
Service Medals	Britsh War 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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	Gleniti School War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Left with the Samoan Expeditionary Force on 13th January 1915 with the rank of Sergeant. He was promoted Second Lieutenant at Samoa on 16 September 1915. He eventually returned to NZ in May 1916 after recieving promotion to Lieutenant 13 March 1916 on recommendation of the Administrator.

However Andrew was medically boarded and found unfit for Active Service in July 1916. Following this he reported to Camp Commandant Featherston for duty as Assistant Provost Marshal on 14 September 1916. Appointed Assistant Provost Marshal at Featherston Military Camp 4 January 1917. Struck off strength of the Expeditionary Force with effect 16 May 1917 and posted to Unattached List (b) with original rank as 2nd Lieutenant as from 16 May 1917. Andrew had vbeen promoted to Captain while employed as Assistant Provost Marshal as from 1 August 1917.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ted Hansen, SC branch NZSG

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