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KYNE, Patrick Edward
(Service number 7/862)

First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12/04/1897	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Patrick KYNE (father), Temuka, South Canterbury

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals

Post-war Occupations

Clerical worker

Death

Date	25 May 1978	Age	81 years
Place of Death
Cause
Memorial or Cemetery	Ruru Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Block 1E, Plot 257
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Patrick Edward Kyne was the youngest son of Patrick and Norah (née Folen) Kyne, and a brother of James Joseph Kyne who also served in World War One. Another brother, Thomas Stephen Kyne, was called up in 1917, by which time he was a police constable stationed in Auckland. Thomas was not eighteen years old when he embarked for Suez, Egypt. He married Margaret teresa Sughrue (Sugrue) in 1919.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 February 2017]; Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch, headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZG cemetery records) [25 February 2017]; Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch, burial record (Christchurch City Council) [25 February 2017]

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