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MARSHALL, William
(Service number 19/181)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	26 April 1868	Place of Birth	Renfrewshire, Scotland (Lanarkshire?)

Enlistment Information

Date	13 January 1915	Age	46 years 9 months
Address at Enlistment	Alton Street, Timaru
Occupation	Cordial manufacturer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. Two children
Next of Kin	Mrs M. P. MARSHALL (wife), 7 Edward Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 8 inches. Weight 160 lbs. Chest measurement 36½-39 inches. Complexion fair. Eyes grey. Hair brown. Sight & hearing both good. Colour vision correct. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Teeth - upper bad, lower pass. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No fits.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Samoan Garrison

Military Awards

Campaigns	Samoan; Egyptian
Service Medals
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	16 December 1918	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	1 February 1958	Age	89 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 3 February 1958
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 55, Plot 952
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Marshall married Margaret Paterson Gage on 14 October 1896 at Kaitangata, New Zealand. They had two children - Robert born in 1897 at Kaitangata and Sophia Penman born in 1901 at Balclutha.This 47 year old man gave 3 years 339 days of war service. William admitted that he had been imprisoned in 1907 at Dunedin.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5544 0078249) [07 May 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [13 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 January 2017]; Timaru Herald, 3 February 1958 (Timaru Distict Library) [08 May 2017]

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