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KING, Samuel Daniel
(Service number 15918)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	10/04/1890	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Daniel E. KING (father), Milford, Temuka
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	6th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	26 July 1916
Transport	Waitemata or Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Rifle Brigade

Military Awards

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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

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	22 November 1952	Age	62 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 160, Plot 666
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Samuel Daniel King was the son of Daniel Edward King and his wife Alice (née Ryan). Samuel and his brother David embarked together. S. D. King, 15918, Temuka, returned to New Zealand in March 1918 in Draft 149.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [[05 February 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [05 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [07 February 2017]; Evening Post, 13 March 1918 (Papers Past) [05 February 2017]

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