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ANDERSON, James
(Service number 6/401)

Aliases
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Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Geraldine
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin William R. ANDERSON (father), Geraldine
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date 16 October 1914
Transport Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From Lyttelton, Canterbury Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns Gallipoli
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

16 September 1916 wounded slightly. Previously a slight break-down.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 19 June 1950 Age 74 yrs
Place of Death Geraldine (at his sister's residence, McDonald Street)
Cause
Notices Timaru Herald, 20 June 1950
Memorial or Cemetery Geraldine Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 342, Plot 9
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of William Kennedy & Elizabeth Elliot (nee PATERSON) ANDERSON. Married Violet McCALLUM, in 1920 at Palmerston North. Present at first landing at Gallipoli & served in all the fighting at the Dardanelles without receiving a scratch.Mother incorrectly informed in January 1916 that he had been killed. To return to NZ in October 1918. Brother John Elliott ANDERSON also served in WWI. James died at his sister's residence in Geraldine, his wife Violet having predecesaed him. Members of the Geraldine RSA paid their respects at his funeral.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [21 July 2013]; TDC headstone image [28 August 2013]; Timaru Herald, 17 November 1915, 30 November 1916, 21 January 1916, 11 October 1918 (Papers Past) [18 September 2013, 7 November 2013]; Timaru Herald, 20 & 21 June 1950 (Timaru District Library) [11 April 2014]

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