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STEVEN, James Thomson
(Service number 10716)

Pleasant Point School War Memorial — (Courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum )

Pleasant Point War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.18 #01)

Aliases
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	G Steven (father) Pleasant Point, South Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	1st NZ Cyclist Company
Date	6 May 1916
Transport	HMNZT 52, 53 Mokoia Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Cycle Corps

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	17 November 1917	Age	25
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Died of Wounds
Notices	Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16405, 30 November 1917, Page 4
Memorial or Cemetery	Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	III.M.30
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Hazelburn District War Memorial; Pleasant Point War Memorial; Winchester War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of George and Agnes Jessie Steven 16 York St, Timaru

Sources

Obituary Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16408, 4 December 1917, Page 2

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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