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STRANG, Crawford
(Service number 6/556)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	21/08/1891	Place of Birth	Newtown, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	oOld Bank Hotel, Timaru
Occupation	Hotel porter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Lilian STRANG (wife), 59 Bank Street, Timaru; Miss Bertha de ZILL, 217 King Street, Temuka; James STRANG, Pollock House, Newton Mearns, Scotland
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	5 December 1977	Age	86 years
Place of Death	Patea
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Crawford Starng was born on 21 August 1891 at Newtown Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland. In 909 Crawford, a warehouseman, was serving with the royal Navy. He married Lilian Slade in 1914 at Timaru. They had a daughter born , Lilian Crawford Strang, born on 20 April 1915 at Timaru. Crawford and Lilian divorced in 1919. A few years later Crawford married Doris Easter Murray.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2019]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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