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DAVIDSON, Arthur
(Service number 6/2113)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	24/07/1893	Place of Birth	Friockheim, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	13 February 1915	Age	22
Address at Enlistment	Archer St, Timaru
Occupation	Factory hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	David Davidson (father), 11 Archer St, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 June 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli, Western Front
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

Military hospital Malta 31 Aug 1915; embarked HT Northlands for England; admitted to 2nd SG Hospital, Bristol 2 Oct 1915

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 September 1916	Age	23
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemegtery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

son of David and Annie Davidson, 22 Edward St, Timaru. Native of Forfarshire, Scotland. Davidson's unit arrived in the Dardanelles around 9 Aug 1915

Sources

Cenotaph Jan 2014

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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