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MECHEN, John
(Service number 19/183)

Aliases	Died as John White MECHEN
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	03/07/1867	Place of Birth	County Antrim, Ireland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Fairview, Timaru
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Widowed
Next of Kin	John MECHEN (son), Fairview, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Relief Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Infantry
Date	27 March 1915
Transport	Tahune
Embarked From		Destination	Apia, Western Samoa

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

Horse trainer

Death

Date	15 February 1951	Age	83 years
Place of Death	Sunnyside Hospital, Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Mechen was the son of Patrick and Margaret (née McNeilly) Mechen. He married Isabella Thomson in 1888 at Timaru. They had a family of five before Isabella died at the birth of the fifth child. John's son both enlisted for World War I, George serving overseas.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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