GUINNESS, Arthur Grattan
(Service number 5/166)
| First Rank | Sergeant | Last Rank | Second Lieutenant |
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Birth
| Date | 28/08/1890 | Place of Birth | Timaru |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 22 December 1914 | Age | |
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| Address at Enlistment | Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Stock agent, Guinnes & Le Cren | ||
| Previous Military Experience | |||
| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Edwin Roland Guinness (father), Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 4th Reinforcements | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Army Service Corp | ||
| Date | 17 April 1915 | ||
| Transport | Willochra or Knight Templaror Waitomo | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
| Other Units Served With | |||
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| Last Unit Served With | NZ Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, 3rd | ||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | Egypt 1915-16,Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915, Western Europe 1916-17 | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 24 October 1917 | Age | 27 |
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| Place of Death | Ypres,Belgium | ||
| Cause | Killed in action | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine Church Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial; Waimataitai School War Memorial; Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library) (as G Guinness); Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru | ||
Biographical Notes
Son of Edwin Rowland and Florence Annie Guinness nee Plaisted,Timaru. Edwin was Mayor of Timaru 1914-1919. Brother Edwin Rowland b 1887 (53845). Francis Benjamin Hart b 1891 d 25 Aug 1915 (7/921), John Charles b 1891 (4/367), sister Naumai Kathleen Clephane b1898
Sources
Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015); NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/ (April 2015)
External Links
Related Documents
- Past Times page, Timaru Herald - 2 Dec 2014 (pdf, 4.5 MB updated 09-Jan-2015)
- Guinness family - biography by Alan McKenzie (pdf, 89.8 KB updated 03-May-2016)
Researched and Written by
Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG); Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG
Currently Assigned to
Not assigned.
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