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THOMSON, Stanley Bowie
(Service number 23/1305)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Quartermaster Sergeant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	318 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Unknown occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs E. Austin (mother), Post-office, Dannevirke, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Advance Party 2nd Reinforcements to 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	E Company
Date	15 August 1914; 13 November 1915
Transport	Moeraki or Monowai Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Apia, Samoa, Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion, 3rd

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	12 October 1917	Age
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	N.Z. Apse, Panel 7.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Stanley Thomson was the grandson of Emma Harriet Bowie, of 117 Sherbourne St., St. Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC.

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