Profile

PACKER, James Alphonsus
(Service number 44012)

Aliases	James Anthony
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	04/03/1894	Place of Birth	Studholme

Enlistment Information

Date	5 January 1917	Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Ploughman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs P. Green (sister), Studholme Junction, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	23rd Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	2 April 1917
Transport	Corinthic
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal, 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	21 May 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Gassed 18 Febuary 1918 and sent back to New Zealand in May 1919

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	18 April 1939	Age	45
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	St Patrick's (Waimate) Memorial list (June 2015)

Biographical Notes

Son of Worth and Ann Packer nee O'Halloran. Married Hannah O'Connor 1925

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (May 2015); Archives New Zealand; New Zealand BDM Historical Records online; Waimate Cemetery records

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum); Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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