Profile

WRENN, James Victor
(Service number 13/753)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank

Birth

Date 12/04/1892 Place of Birth Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Ohinewai
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Mrs Elizabeth WHITE (mother), Thames
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 2nd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Auckland Mounted Rifles
Date 14 December 1914
Transport Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
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

Goldminer

Death

Date 21 January 1967 Age 74 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Marsden Valley Cemetery, Nelson
Memorial Reference Plot 61
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Victor Wrenn was born on 12 April 1892, five moths after his father died. He was the younger son of James Henry and Elizabeth Watson (née Bell) Wrenn. His father was a bank manager in Timaru prior to his death. In 1894 Mrs Elizabeth Wrenn married Percy White. Young James was educated for a few years at Temuka School. His older brother alan Henry Wrenn, was called up for war service.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [27 July 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [27 July 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [30 jULY 2018]; Marssden Valley Cemetery, Nelson, headstone transcription

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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