Profile

INKSTER, Edwin Clifford
(Service number 52613)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	08/03/1896	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Featherston
Occupation	Bank clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Robert INKSTER (father), Waimate, Canterbury
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	Reinforcements G Company
Date	12 June 1917
Transport	Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

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

Banker

Death

Date	6 March 1974	Age	77 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hawkes Bay Crematorium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edwin Clifford Inkster was the youngest son of Robert and Florence (née McCulloch) Inkster. His brother Robert James Inkster also enlisted. He appeas to have returned to New Zealand on the Maunganui in June 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 March 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) 17 March 2018]; hawkes Bay Cremation records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [18 March 2018]; Timaru Herald, 16 June 1919 (Papers Past) [17 March 2018]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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