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PATTERSON, John
(Service number 80107)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	15/10/1889	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Royal Hotel, Temuka
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs A. H. PATTERSON (mother), Gore
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	42nd Reinforcements, B Company
Date	1 August 1918
Transport	Tofua
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	1 March 1957	Age	67 years
Place of Death	Gore
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Gore Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Block 103, Plot 100
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Patterson was the second son of James and Annie (née Bremner). His brother James enlisted for service in World War I, as did his cousin George Norton Patterson. John may have attended Gore School.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 April 2019]; Gore Cemetery burial record (Gore District Council) [13 April 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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