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DALTON, Roland
(Service number 14953)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	03/06/1895	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Mesopotamia Station
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Anne Dalton (mother), Redcliffs, Sumner Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	14th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

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	13 June 1917	Age	21
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of George Edward and Anne Dalton, of 161, Fendalton Rd., Fendalton, Christchurch

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20995070 - digitised

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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Not assigned.

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