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RUSBRIDGE, Thomas Frederick
(Service number 62884)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sapper

Birth

Date	18/08/1897	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Geraldine
Occupation	Telegraph cadet
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Alice Rusbridge (mother), 209 North 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	34th Reinforcements, Specialist Company
Date	8 February 1918
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

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Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Postmaster

Death

Date	5 January 1971	Age	73 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 155, Plot 48
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Frederick Rusbridge was born on 18 August 1897 at Christchurch, the son of George James and Alice Ingram (née Chamberlain) Rusbridge. he was educated at Ashburton School before transferring to Timaru Main School in June 1910. Thomas married Bessie Steele McKissock in 1920. Bessie predeceased him by nearly nine years.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [01 January 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru Districy Council) [02 January 2017]

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