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O'MEEGHAN, Gordon Marie Boughan
(Service number N/N)

Aliases	Name at death - Gordon Bowen O'MEEGHAN
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Birth

Date	08/12/1897	Place of Birth	Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Sarah Street, Timaru; St Patrick's College, Wellington
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs S. E. O'MEEGHAN (mother), Sarah Street, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
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Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
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Death

Date	11 August 1944	Age	46 years
Place of Death	Chrsistchurch
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Memorial or Cemetery	Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Gordon Marie Boughan O'Meeghan was born on 2 December 1897 at Timaru, the son of Peter O'Meeghan, from Inneskeen, County Louth, Ireland, and his wife, Sarah Ellen née Patterson. Gordon O'Meeghan was a cousin of Michael O'Meeghan.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [03 October 2017]; Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch, headsrone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [04 October 2017]; Timaru Herald, 10 December 1897 (Papers Past) [04 October 2017]]

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