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MEAGHER, Frederick Hughes
(Service number 64900)

Aliases	Fred
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	10 December 1888	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	24 August 1917	Age	28 years 8 months
Address at Enlistment	Norton Reserve, Waimate
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Emily Hughes MEAGHER (mother), Norton Reserve, Waimate
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 5 inches. Weight 157 lbs. Chest measurement 33-37 inches. Complexion fresh. Eyes blue. Hair brown. Sight - right eye 6/12, left eye 6/18. Hearing * colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Heart & lungs normal. Illness - operation on nose some months ago. Free from gernia, Varicocele, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Varicose veins - left leg. Vaccinated (left). Good bodily & mental health. Slight defect - veins, but not sufficient to cause rejection. No fits. He has ........ Has slight veins below knee left. Class A.

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	33rd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company
Date	31 December 1917
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	25 August 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	4 January 1958	Age	69 years
Place of Death	Public Hospital, Waimate
Cause	Carcinoma posterior wall of pylorus of stomach; congestive heart failure
Notices	Timaru Herald, 6 January 1958
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Roman Catholic Section, Plot 887
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick Hughes Meagher, born on 10 December 1888 at Waimate, was the second of the four sons of Martin Joseph and Emily (née Hughes) Meagher. His schoolmaster father died in 1895, and his mother remarried in 1899, to Henry Harris Edwards. Fred was educated at St Patrick's School, Waimate, where he received prizes for Standard VI arithmetic and writing in February 1903. He was initially rejected as unfit for the Military Forces on account of varicose veins.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [07 July 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5549 0079808) [07 July 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [07 July 2017]; Timaru Herald, 6 January 1958 (Timaru District Library) [07 July 2017]; Timaru Herald, 13 August 1895, 6 September 1895, 11 February 1903, 7 June 1917, Waimate Daily Advertiser, 24 December 1914, 4 May 1915, 12 September 1917, 05 July 1919, New Zealand Times, 4 July 1919 (Papers Past) [07 & 08 July 2017]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [07 July 2017]; Waimate Cemetery burial records (Waimate District Council) [08 July 2017]; Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch) [07 July 2017]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [08 July 2017]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [07 July 2017]

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