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LANGE, Edward Arthur
(Service number 65009)

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Birth

Date 4 February 1888 Place of Birth Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Pareora, South Canterbury
Occupation Tally clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single then married in 1917
Next of Kin Mrs Ettie LANGE (wife), Pareora, South Canterbury
Religion Church of England
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Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

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Discharge

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Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Freezing works employee

Death

Date 24 May 1945 Age 57 years
Place of Death Pareora
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 131, Plot 339
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edward Arthur Lange was the son of German born Charles and Wilhelmine Lange. He married Ettie Smallridge (né e Hanson) in 1917. Ettie was the widow of William Smallridge and she brought with her four children.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 July 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [17 July 2017]; Hall and Moore Funeral Directors records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG transcription) [16 July 2017]

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