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STEAD, Armit Willard
(Service number 49290)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	08/08/1897	Place of Birth	Tapanui

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	57 Cargill Street, Dunedin
Occupation	Bookseller
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Allan STEAD (father), 11 Fritz Street, Timaru
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	28th Reinforcements, Specialists Company, Machine-Gun Section
Date	24 July 1917
Transport	Waitemata
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry

Military Awards

Campaigns
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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Clerk

Death

Date	25 November 1966	Age	68 years
Place of Death	Ashburton
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ashburton Cemetery
Memorial Reference	RSA Section, Area 233, Plot 25
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Armit Willard Stead was the younger son of Allan and Eleanor (Nellie, née Starford) Stead. Armit, his brother Walter and sister Mavis were all educated at the Timaru Main School.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 February 2017]

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