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McCARTHY, Edward Thomas
(Service number 23/221)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	22/03/1894	Place of Birth	Glenavy

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Care of C. Ensor, Hakataramea
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	P. McCARTHY (father), Glenavy, South Canterbury
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	A Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

Farmer

Death

Date	29 September 1956	Age	62 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section; Row 59; Plot 1493
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Patrick McCARTHY & Minnie nee MORRISSEY, of Glenavy. Married May BRESLIN in 1920. Brother of Eugene Francis McCARTHY who was killed in action in 1917 in Belgium. Brothers John Patrick & Timothy McCARTHY also served in WWI. Returned from the Front in October 1917.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [01 November 2013]; TDC headstone image, Timaru Cemetery [01 November 2013]; Timaru Herald, 16 October 1917 (Papers Past) [01 November 2013].

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