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GILMORE, John
(Service number 21821)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	20/04/1888	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waihaorunga, South Canterbury
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs E. J. ATWILL (friend), Manchester Street, Waimate
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	16th Reinforcements, J Company
Date	20 August 1916
Transport	Navua
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

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	17 March 1946	Age	57 years
Place of Death	Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference	Soldiers Section, Block SF 6, Plot 12
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Gilmore was probably the son of John and Johanna Gilmore. He left Timaru with the South Canterbury quota of the 16th Reinforcements on 3 May 1916.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [19 May 2019]; Timaru Herald, 2 May 1916 (Papers Past) [02 August 2016]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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