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GRIFFIN, Andrew Joseph
(Service number 6/1548)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	29/11/1875	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	12 November 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Hereford St, Kensington, Timaru
Occupation	Labourer, National Mortgage & Co, Timaru
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	David Griffin (Father), Hereford St, Kensington St, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Manganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16, Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Balkans (Gallipoli) & Mudros (Lemnos) 1915
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	13 February 1955	Age	79
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Block B, Plot 232
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

The Evening Post of 15 Sept 1915 (pg.8) reported the wounding of Andrew in the legs while serving with the Canterbury Battalion.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015); SCRoll web submission from R Balderston, 3 January 2016

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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