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CARGO, Samuel Stephen
(Service number 57474)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	5 August 1888	Place of Birth	Seadown

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Seadown
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Samuel CARGO (father), Seadown, South Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
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Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	*June 1962	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 181, Plot 1
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Samuel Stephen Cargo was the elder son of Samuel and Sarah Mary (née Tweedy) Cargo. He wa seducated at the Seadown and Temuka schools. On 11 June 1919 at St Peter's Church, Temuka, he married ethel doris Green.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 January 2017]; Temuka Cemetery burial record) Timaru district Council) [13 January 2017]

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