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WALLER, John
(Service number 76570)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	24 April 1898	Place of Birth	Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Emily WALLER (mother), Geraldine
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	39th Reinforcements, C Company
Date	13 June 1918
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	23 September 1984	Age	86 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Geraldine Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 362, Plot 29
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Waller was born on 24 April 1898 at Geraldine, the third son of Henry and Emily (née Burnham) Waller. His initial education was at the Orton School, then in April 1910 he transferred to the Geraldine School. Like their father who died at 98 years of age, brothers John and Joseph were long-lived.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017]; Geraldine Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [14 January 2017]

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