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POULTNEY, Samuel
(Service number 6/4127)

Aliases	Born & died Samuel Robert POULTNEY
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31/03/1884	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	G POULTNEY (father), High Street, Christchurch
Religion	Presbyterian
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	10th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	4 March 1916
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
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Military Awards

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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

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	10 June 1956	Age	72 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Area 43, Plot 251
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Samuel Poultney was the son of George and Elizabeth Poultney. He married Elizabeth Hain Scott in 1925.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [18 December 2018]; refer Press, 24 January 1920 (Papers Past)

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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