DAVIE, Andrew
(Service number 7/1998)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 12 May 1891 | Place of Birth | Orari Bridge, Geraldine |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Gapes Valley, Geraldine | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | George DAVIE (father), Gapes Valley, Geraldine | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 9th Reinforcements. Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron | ||
| Date | 8 January 1916 | ||
| Transport | Maunganui | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 16 August 1922 | Age | 31 years |
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| Place of Death | Geraldine | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Geraldine Cemetery | ||
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Biographical Notes
Andrew Davie was the second son of George and Sarah Jane (née Howden) Davie. He was educated at Gapes Valley and Skipton schools.. In 1920 he married Jessie Ackerman Monahan. On his death in 1922 he was a ccorded a military funeral, with a firing party and the sounding of the Last Post.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database {10 February 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [10 February 2018]; Geraldine Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [10 February 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [10 February 2018]; Temuka Leader, 19 August 1922 (Papers Past) [06 February 2018]
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