MacPHERSON, Norman
(Service number 7/229)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 22 July 1882 | Place of Birth | Kaiapoi |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Motueka | ||
| Occupation | Surveyor | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Norman MacPHERSON (father), Geraldine | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Main Body | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Canterbury Mounted Rifles | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | Tahiti or Athenic | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | |
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Military Awards
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 9 September 1952 | Age | 70 years |
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| Place of Death | Nelson | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Seaview Road Cemetery, Nelson | ||
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Biographical Notes
Norman MacPherson was the son of Norman and Janet (Jessie, née Robertson) MacPherson, who had come out from Sleat, Inverness, Scotland with a young family in 1874. Janet Macpherson died in 1893 and was buried at Woodbury, to be joined by her husband in 1925.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal affairs) [17 December 2018]; Seaview Road Cemetery record (Nelson City Council) [17 December 2018]; refer to Timaru Herald, 26 August 1915, 21 December 1916, 18 July 1918,21 anuary 1919, Temuka Leader, 25 January 1919, (Papers Past) [17 Decembber 2017
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