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McCROSSAN, Francis
(Service number 43346)

Aliases	Enlisted as Frank
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	03/05/1893	Place of Birth	Southbridge

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Arno, Waimate
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	James McCROSSAN (father), Arno, Waimate
Religion	Roman Catholic
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	26th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles
Date	31 May 1917
Transport	Moeraki. Transhipped to Port Lincoln at Sydney.
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	31 August 1972	Age	78 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 94, Plot 252
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Francis McCrossan, who enlisted as Frank was the son of James and Elizabeth Mary (née Welsh) McCROSSAN. His brother John died of wounds in 1918 in France, and another brother, Ernest Owen, also served in World War One, Frank and Ernest embarking together.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 June 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [16 June 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [16 June 2017]

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