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McCABE, Joseph William Aloysius
(Service number 33040)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date 2 April 1887 Place of Birth Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment C/o Mrs Tee, Waimate
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs M. A. McCABE (mother), Care of Mrs Tee, Point Bush Road, Waimate
Religion Roman Catholic
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 19th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date 15 November 1916
Transport Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Otago Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals British War Medal; Victory Medal
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 9 February 1919 Reason On account of illness contracted on active service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 14 May 1963 Age 76 years
Place of Death Queensland, Australia
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Joseph McCabe was the youngest son of Edward and Mary Ann (née Clancy) McCabe, who had cpme out from Ireland in 1874, their second child dying en route. Mrs Tee was his sister Sarah. J. W. A. McCabe embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919. Joseph married Gladys Ellen Batchelor in 1922. Their son was born at Waimate in 1928. William and Gladys divorced in 1932.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [09 June 2019]; Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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