Profile

REGAN, John M
(Service number 8/1824)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Hamilton Sawmill, Tuatapere, New Zealand
Occupation	Sawmill Hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	W Regan (father), Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Date	17 April 1915
Transport
Embarked From	Wellington New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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	10 March 1916	Age	27
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	IV J. 32
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial not on Tuatapere War Memorial

Biographical Notes

John Regan was the son of J Regan of Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand. Husband of Alice Regan of 3 Cross Row, Hackhill, Dundee, Scotland. Had a daughter Alice. 1915 admitted to hospital in Dundee.? married then.

Sources

Cenotaph data base Auckland; bdmhistoricalreords.dai.govt.nz and Digitised Military Personal File at Archives NZ

External Links

Researched and Written by

George Munro

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