STRANG, Crawford
(Service number 6/556)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 21 August 1891 | Place of Birth | Newtown, Renfrewshire, Scotland |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | oOld Bank Hotel, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Hotel porter | ||
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| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | Mrs Lilian STRANG (wife), 59 Bank Street, Timaru; Miss Bertha de ZILL, 217 King Street, Temuka; James STRANG, Pollock House, Newton Mearns, Scotland | ||
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 Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | Tahiti or Athenic | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 5 December 1977 | Age | 86 years |
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| Place of Death | Patea | ||
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Biographical Notes
Crawford Starng was born on 21 August 1891 at Newtown Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland. In 909 Crawford, a warehouseman, was serving with the royal Navy. He married Lilian Slade in 1914 at Timaru. They had a daughter born , Lilian Crawford Strang, born on 20 April 1915 at Timaru. Crawford and Lilian divorced in 1919. A few years later Crawford married Doris Easter Murray.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2019]
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