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SADLER, Robert William Walter John
(Service number 47087)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	15/05/1890	Place of Birth	Templeton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Box 142, Fairlie, Canterbury
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	T. SADLER (father), P.O. Box 142, Fairlie; Mrs Martha SADLER (mother), Ashwick Flat, Fairlie
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	25th Reinforcements, J Company
Date	26 April 1917
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Rifle Brigade

Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	6 January 1953	Age	62 years
Place of Death	Green Island
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Fairlie Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert William Walter John Sadler was the second son of Thomas and Martha (née Ellis) Sadler. He was born in 1890 at Templeton. Later in the 1890s the family moved to the Mackenzie district, where Robert attended the Te Ngawai and Albury schools.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 January 2017]; Fairlie Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [04 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [05 January 2017]

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