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SCHMITH, Charles Henry
(Service number 63268)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	12/11/1881	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	F. R. SCHMITH (brother), Waimate Cold Storage, Waimate
Religion
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	32nd Reinforcements, E Company
Date	21 November 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	9 October 1972	Age	90 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Henry Schmith was the son of Frank and Louisa Bella (née Smith) Schmith. His father died in 1887 and is buried at Waimate. Charles was drawn in the 17th ballot in 1917. He returned to New Zealand on the Chupra's draft in July 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 May 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 May 2019]; Waimate Daily Advertiser, 9 May 1917, Otago Daily Times, 4 July 1919 (Papers Past) [29 April 2018; 15 May 2019]; Waikumete Cemetery record [14 May 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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