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EMMERSON, John
(Service number 26/1036)

Aliases	Jack
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	29 July 1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Parsonage Road, Waimate
Occupation	Plumber
Previous Military Experience	2nd South Canterbury Regiment
Marital Status
Next of Kin	M. EMMERSON (father), Parsonage Road, Waimate; later C/o P.O. St Andrews, Timaru. Afterwards Mrs E. EMMERSON (wife), Torquay, England
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	4th Battalion, C Company
Date	5 February 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Rifle Brigade

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian; Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Western European
Service Medals	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	6 June 1918	Reason	Being no longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in Action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Right arm amputated

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	13 August 1929	Age	32 years
Place of Death	Waimate
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John EMMERSON, known as Jack, was the son of Malcolm and Martha Catherine (née Anderson) Emmerson. John Emmerson was accorded a military funeral when he died in 1929. Jack married Elizabeth Livingstone on 20 October 1917 in Edinburgh.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 August 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5537 0037977) [09 August 2016]; Timaru Herald, 15 August 1929 (Timaru District Library) [09 August 2016]

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