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CRONE, George Edward
(Service number 78231)

Aliases	Enlisted as George CRONE
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25 February 1887	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	T. CRONE (father), Leonard Street, Waimate
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

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	39th Reinforcements, B Company
Date	13 June 1918
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	*October 1946	Age	58 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Riverton Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Block P, Plot 6
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Edward Crone was the son of Thomas Wilson and Jane (née Ball) Crone. His brother James Joseph Crone was killed in action in 1916 at the Somme, and his brother Arthur also served.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 March 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) 17 March 2018]; Riverton Cemetery record (Southland Branch NZSG [18 March 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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