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KING, James
(Service number 4/1511)

Aliases
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank	Sapper

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Mill Road, Waimate, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs J. King (wife), Mill Road, Waimate, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Tunnelling Company
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Headquarters, No.4 Section
Date	18 December 1915
Transport	Ruapehu
Embarked From	Auckland, New Zealander	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Engineers

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	15 August 1916	Age	31
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Roclincourt Valley cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; St Augustine Church War memorial?

Biographical Notes

James King was the husband of Julia Francis King, of 4 Forth St., Dunedin West, New Zealand. native of Westland, New Zealand.

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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