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LORIMER, James Ramsay
(Service number 7/1093)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	20/06/1881	Place of Birth	Manchester, England

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Marston Road, Timaru
Occupation	Fisherman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Widowed
Next of Kin	Mrs harlotte McAuleu (sister), 45 Storet Street, Paisley, Scotland
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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

Labourer

Death

Date	28 June 1965	Age	84 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 119, Plot 13
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Ramsay Lorimer was born in 1881 at Manchester, England. He had married Mary Watson McGarrilge in 1912 in New Zealand. It appears that Mary had died before James enlisted. He was living at the Beverley War Veterans Home when he died in 1965.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [29 December 2016]

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