Profile

COSTIGAN, Patrick
(Service number 75731)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	02/07/1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Railway Station, Waipukurau
Occupation	Fireman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Kathleen COSTIGAN (mother), Middle Street, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
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	39th Reinforcements, B Company
Date	13 June 1918
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

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

Engine driver

Death

Date	5 May 1965	Age	69 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 100, Plot 139
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Patrick Costigan was the son of Jeremiah and Kathleen (Kate) Costigan. Patirck was educated at Sacred Heart School Timaru and the Timaru Marist Brothers School.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Datanase [17 August 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [24 September 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [24 September 2018]; Timaru cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [24 September 2018[

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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