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McCLAFFERTY, James
(Service number 12062)

Aliases
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank	Sapper

Birth

Date	25/05/1884	Place of Birth	Glasgow, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/o Mrs Fulton, Church Street, Timaru
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs M. McCLAFFERTY (mother, Carstairs, Lanarkshire, Scotland; also W. CRANSTON (friend), Stafford Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	12th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Engineers, No. 2 Field Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Joiner

Death

Date	28 March 1949	Age	65 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 106, Plot
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Luke McClafferty was born on 24 August 1894 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He married Joeina Horne Kearney in 1924. Their son, Sergeant John Horne mcClafferty of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, died in 1944. .

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 December 2016; Timaru Cemetery headstone images (Timaru District Library) [09 December 2016]

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