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WHITTLESTON, Claude Tasman
(Service number 4/213)

Aliases
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/09/1891	Place of Birth	Shag Point, Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	116 Church Street, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	H. WHITTLESTON (father), Green Island, Otago
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Advance Party
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Railway Engineers
Date
Transport	Moeraki or Monowai
Embarked From		Destination

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	12 August 1942	Age	50 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 93, Plot 43
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Claude Tasman Whittleston was the son of Henry and Emma Whittleston. By 1914 he was living in Teimaru. Claude received a call up in 1916, after he had returned from Samoa. He married Eleanor theresa O'Shea in 1917.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [01 April 2018]; NZBDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs); Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [06 April 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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