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MEAGHER, James
(Service number 79193)

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Birth

Date	27/01/1887	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	23 October 1917	Age	30 years
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Fireman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs E. EDWARDS (mother), Waimate, South Canterbury
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 4½ inches. Weight 141 lbs. Chest measurement 33½-37 inches. Complexion dark. Eyes brown. Hair black. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing & colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Good bodily & mental health. slight defect but not sufficient to cause rejection - flat feet. No fits. No notification for consumption. Never under treatment in a sanatorium or mental institution. Never absent from work through ill-health or accident. Flattening of feet. Class A.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date	19 March 1919	Reason	Demobilized

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Post-war Occupations

Engine driver; packer

Death

Date	4 July 1961	Age	74 years
Place of Death	45 Oban Street, Wellington (residence)
Cause	Carcinoma bronchus right lower lobe (2½ years); debility
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Karori Cemetery, Wellington
Memorial Reference	Block C, Plot 51
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Meaghe was born in 1887 at Timaru , the eldest son of Martin Joseph and Emily (née Hughes) Meagher. His schoolmaster father died in 1895, and his mother remarried in 1899, to Henry Harris Edwards. Although James gave Waimate he was a fireman for New Zealand Railways at Cross Creek when he nelisted.

Sources

NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5549 0079809) [09 July 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [07 July 2017]; Timaru Herald, 13 August 1895, 6 September 1895, Waimate Daily Advertiser, 11 May 1908, 29 June 1908, 24 December 1914, New Zealand Times, 11 October 1910, Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, 12 May 1916, Manawatu Times, 4 September 1917, Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 April 1918 (Papers Past) [07, 08 & 09 July 2017]

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