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SQUIRE, Francis John
(Service number 10/2316)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	27/06/1892	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	City Buffet, Wellington
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Martha SQUIRE (mother), Sunnyside, New Lynn, Auckland
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	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	13 June 1915
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	6 January 1927	Age	34 years
Place of Death	In bush
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Francis John Squire was the son of Henry and Martha Rebecca (née Ford) Squire. His brother Albert Henry Squire also served in World War One.It was determined a year after the event that Francis John squire had died in the bush. He was a farmer of Manganui-a-te-ao Valley near Raetihi.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [02 January 2017]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [02 January 2017]

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