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McTAGUE, Alford Adam
(Service number 12237)

Aliases	Alford on Cenotaph Database
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	11/03/1896	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Frank McTAGUE (brother), Otipua Road, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	3rd Reinforcements to 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	6 May 1915
Transport	Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	12ths

Military Awards

Campaigns
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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

October 1918 reported wounded.

Post-war Occupations

Death

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Place of Death
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Hugh & Caroline McTAGUE, of Pareora. Brother George Hugh McTAGUE also served in WWI. Returned home in January 1919. Died 1974.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [02 November 2013]; Ashburton Guardian, 24 October 1918 (Papers Past) [02 November 2013]; Timaru Herald, 23 January 1919 (Papers Past) [02 November 2013]; NZ BDM (DiA) [02 November 2013]

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