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GRIFFITHS, Herbert
(Service number 83220)

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Birth

Date	14 June 1886	Place of Birth	Edinburgh, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Wai-iti Avenue, Timaru
Occupation	Accountant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs E. GRIFFITHS (wife), 137 College Street West, Palmerston North
Religion	Presbyterian
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Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
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Post-war Occupations

Company secretary

Death

Date	26 November 1968	Age	82 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery	Glenfield Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Herbert Griffiths married Elsie Vera Drew on 19 June 1914 at Palmerston north, New Zealand. Late in 1917 he was drawn in the Second Ballot for Second Division Class A drafts.

Sources

Timaru Herald, 4 December 1917 (Papers Past) [08 August 2015]; Undertaker’s Records [21 December 2019]; Glenfield Cemetery headstone transcription [28 December 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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