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CHISHOLM, Gillies
(Service number 38936)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31/10/1885	Place of Birth	Sutherlands

Enlistment Information

Date	7 October 1916	Age
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Miss Maggie CHISHOLM (sister), Sutherlands, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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Other Units Served With
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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	7 May 1969	Age	83 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 30, Plot 730
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Gillies Chisholm was the eighth son of William and Isabella (née Sinclair) Gillies, both of whom hailed from Scotland, and a twin of Margaret Catherine Chisholm. Gillies was called up in 1917 but he had already enlisted in 1916. In 1920 he married Mary Magowan, who predeceased him by more than twenty years. Two brothers served in World War I - John Sinclair and William; and a third, James, enlisted..

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 April 2019]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [25 April 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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