SHERWIN, George Arthur
(Service number )
| First Rank | Last Rank |
|---|
Birth
| Date | 03/08/1875 | Place of Birth | Oamaru |
|---|
Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address at Enlistment | Box 132, Fairlie | ||
| Occupation | Storekeeper | ||
| Previous Military Experience | |||
| Marital Status | Married. Two children | ||
| Next of Kin | |||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
|---|
Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | |||
| Date | |||
| Transport | |||
| Embarked From | Destination | ||
| Other Units Served With | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Unit Served With | |||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Medals | |||
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 |
Death
| Date | 26 May 1942 | Age | 67 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Death | Timaru | ||
| Cause | |||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Timaru Cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
George Arthur Sherwin was the son of Matthew and Catherine (Kate) Sherwin. Matthew Sherwin was mayor of Waunate for a time in the mid 1880s. In 1911 his son William presented a framed photo to the Waimate Borough Council for inclusion in the photo gallery. George married Sarah Martha Curran in 1902 at Christchurch. Sarah died in 1904 following the birth of their daughter. George married again in 1908, to Ellen Letitia Sproull. George and Ellen had a son born in 1910. George's brother John married in 1914 at Fairlie. In 1916 George A. Sherwin, of Fairlie, was gazetted a Justice of the Peace in South Canterbury. Late in 1917 he was drawn in the Second Ballot for Second Division Class A drafts. The following January, as he had two children, George Arthur Sherwin, of Fairlie, was placed in Class C. George services as a vocalist were often rewuested, and he sang at the soldiers' social in mid 1919.
Sources
Timaru Herald, 3 June 1916, 4 December 1917, 24 January 1918, 11 June 1919 (Papers Past) [08 August 2015; 25 December 2019]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image [22 December 2019]
External Links
Related Documents
No documents available.
Researched and Written by
Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG
Currently Assigned to
Not assigned.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.
Tell us more
Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!