Profile

FINLAYSON, Donald
(Service number 12/3637)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	09/01/1878	Place of Birth	Christchurch, N Z

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Engine driver
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J. FINLAYSON (mother), Tinwald, Ashburton
Religion
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	9th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	6 September 1925	Age	47 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Raetihi Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Row 4, Plot 31
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Donald Finlayson was the son of Alexander Finlayson. He was educated at Orari Bridge and Woodbury schools among others. His brother Robert also served in World War I, and brother Kenneth Cross Finlayson was killed in action in 1916 in France.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 January 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [30 December 2017]; Raetihi Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records [Jan 2018]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.