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SIMMERS, Robert
(Service number 25/239)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	17/03/1894	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Dannevirke
Occupation	Surveyor's cadet
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	G. A. SIMMERS (father), Selwyn Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
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	3rd Battalion, B Company
Date	5 February 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa or Mokois or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Civil engineer

Death

Date	16 December 1977	Age	83 years
Place of Death	(Christchurch)
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated, ashes interred Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Simmers was the second son of George Annand and Isabella Glen (née Wallace) Simmers. He was educated at Timaru main and Waimataitai schoolsl, Timaru. His older brother, William Wallace Simmers, was killed in action in 1917 in France.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 August 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [09 August 2017]; Andersons Bay Cemetery burial record (Dunedin City Council) [10 August 2017]

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