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McMILLAN, Peter William
(Service number 62873)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	02/10/1896	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	137 Church Street, Timaru
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. One child
Next of Kin	Mrs Daisy McMILLAN (wife), care of Mrs Brassell, Pareora West, Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
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	35th Reinforcements, Specialist Company
Date	2 March 1918
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Southampton, Hampshire, England

Other Units Served With
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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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Post-war Occupations

City Council employee

Death

Date	3 August 1981	Age	84 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 51, Plot 274
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Peter William McMillan was born on 2 October 1896, the son of Henry and Ellen (née Meechhen) McMillan. He married Daisy Brassell on 25 April 1917 at Pareora West. A son, Peter Roland, was born in 1917 at Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [22 June 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 June 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [22 June 2017]

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