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KIMBER, George
(Service number 6/4080)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	02/10/1891	Place of Birth	Fairlie, Canterbury, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	16 November 1915	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	c/- Railway Department, Waimate, New Zealand
Occupation	Railway Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Frank Kimber (father), 12 College Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	11th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	1 April 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Europe
Service Medals	British War Medal(1914-1920); Victory Medal
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	27 December 1917	Age	26
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Etaples Military cemetery, Pas-de- Calais, France
Memorial Reference	Plot XXXI Row E Grave 23 A
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Left Alexandrina for France aboard HMT Caledonia 10.05.1916. George Kimber was the son of Frank and Mary Kimber of 12 College Road, Timaru. Death reported by Rev. W. Greener

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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Not assigned.

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