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COPLAND, Andrew Turnbull
(Service number 28439)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	19/09/1891	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Gladstone House, Marton
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	A. COPLAND (father), Roslyn, King 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	9th Reinforcements, 4th Battalion, H Company
Date	11 October 1916
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

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Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	24 October 1964	Age	73 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 26 October 1964
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Andrew Turnbull Copland was the eleventh born of the 16 children of Alexander and Annie Morton (née Loudon) Copland. In 1991 he married Georgina May Fraser. Three brothers of Alexander also served in World War One - Robert Davie Copland who was killed in action in 1916 at the Somme, Arthur Thomson Copland and William Leslie Copland.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [31 March 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [01 April 2017]

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