Profile

SCORRINGI, Joseph
(Service number 69304)

Aliases	Joe
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	14/08/1889	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Labourer (Wellington Harbour Board)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs S. Scorringi (mother), 40 Abel Smith Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Religion	Church of England
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	34th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	8 February 1918
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Liverpool, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, 3rd

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	8 October 1918	Age	29
Place of Death	Le Cateau, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joseph Scorringi was the son of Frank and Sarah Scorringi, of 46 Roxburgh St., Wellington, New Zealand.

Sources

Cenotaph (4 June 2014); Identified by telephone call from Ken Drury (sp?), great-nephew, to Tony Rippin, 4 June 2014 - Ken has portriat(s) and some documentation he intends to share once collated.

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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