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TOZER, Arthur Henry
(Service number 52541)

First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	11/04/1882	Place of Birth	Blackawton, Devon, England

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/o Dr Barclay, Waimate
Occupation	Chauffeur
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs Jessie May TOZER (wife), 4 Armagh Street, Christchurch. Later of 84 High Street, Waimate
Religion	Church of England

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements, Specialists Company, Machine-Gun Section
Date	13 August 1917
Transport	Mokoia or Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal

Discharge

Date	11 March 1919	Reason

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Arthur Henry TOZER was born on 11 April 1882 in Devon, England, the son of James Langley and Henrietta TOZER, and, along with an infant sister, baptized on 27 May 1887 at St Lawrence, Morden, Surrey. . He married Jessie May HANNAH in 1917 in New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [15 December 2015]; Timaru Herald, 14 February 1917, 15 & 16 March 1917 (Papers Past) [15 December 2015]; Baptism record Morden, Surrey, England (ancestry.com.su) [16 December 2015]1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 England census returns (ancestry.com.au) [16 December 2015]; Shipping records (ancestry.com.au) [16 December 2015]

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