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MANCHESTER, Alfred Robert
(Service number 7/88)

1st Contingent 8th S.C.M.R. to leave Waimate for the 1914-1918 War — Pictured are:
Back: Rainey, G; Frost, R; Julian, W; Cochrane, John; Tennant, John; Cochrane, James; Nichol N; Cameron, C; Robins; Rickman, E A; ?
3rd R: McKenzie, J (alexander John); Duggan, M; Tobin ,J; Tavendale, W; Campbell, J; Gynes; Hodgson, J; McKenzie, R S (Percy?); Samuels, H [actually Henry Samuel Miniss]; Copland; Fitzharris, P; Gill, J
2nd R: Fraser; Whitta, J H; Carr, J; Manchester, A R; Wain, P J; Finlay, John; Bailey, G C; Sloan, P; Bell, N; Menzies, W; Spencer, E; Ryan, E
Front: McGrath, W; Keane, T; Wall, T; Hunt; ?; Hogan, H (Courtesy of Waimate Museum & Archives, P2183 )

Aliases	Known as Robert
First Rank	(1) Quartermaster Sergeant; (2) Second Lieutenant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	01/03/1894	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	(1) 62 Mill Road, Waimate
Occupation	Banker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	George Alfred MANCHESTER (father), 62 Mill Road, Waimate
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) Main Body; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) Canterbury Mounted Rifles; (2) 31st Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	(1) 16 October 1914; (2) 13 November 1917
Transport	(1) Tahiti or Athenic; (2) Tofua
Embarked From	(1) Wellington	Destination	(2) Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Death

Date	*August 1977	Age	83 years
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Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alfred Robert Manchester, known as Robert, was born on 1 March 1894 at Waimate, the older son of George Alfred and Isabella (née Dailey) Manchester. In 1915 he was invalided back to Egypt through having a bad leg, which had been scalded when he upset a can of boiling water in the trenches. [See attachment - newspaper print of letter to mother.] He marriedQueenie Alice Hopkins in 1922.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [02 January 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [02 January 2018]; Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch cemetery records) [02 January 2018]; Waimate Daily Advertiser, 21 August 1915 (Papers Past) [30 June 2016]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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