VALENTINE, Herbert James
(Service number 58627)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Private |
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Birth
| Date | 27/02/1897 | Place of Birth | New Zealand |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | |||
| Occupation | Shepherd | ||
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| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | James A. VALENTINE (father), Reserve, Fairlie | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 29th reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company | ||
| Date | 15 August 1917 | ||
| Transport | Ruahine | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Glasgow, Scotland | |
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| Last Unit Served With | Canterbury Regiment | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 29 April 1976 | Age | 79 years |
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| Place of Death | Timaru | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Temuka Cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
Herbert James Valentine was the first-born of James Alexander and Agnes Millar (née Whyte) Valentine. His early life was spent in otago where he attended Ravensbourne School and Strath Taieri School, Middlemarch. In 1915 the family moved to Fairlie, and there Herbert was a shepherd. He died at Timaru, bur came frome Fairlie, and is buried alongside his wife in the Temuka Cemetery.
Sources
Auckland War memorial Museum cenotaph Database [04 January 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [05 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [04 January 2017]; New Zealand herald, 13 April 1918 (Papers Past) [31 December 2016]
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