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DAVIE, George William Kennedy
(Service number 77025)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	07/01/1898	Place of Birth	Balclutha

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Evans Street, Timaru
Occupation	Draper
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	W. DAVIE (father), 3 Evans Street, Waimataitai, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
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	4nd Reinforcements, D Company
Date	! August 1918
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Traveller

Death

Date	*1966	Age
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New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick James Davie was the younger son of William and Mary Ellen (née Kennedy). Frederick was educated at Roughridge School at Oturehua, and Waimataitai School, Timaru. G. W. K. Davie embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919. He married Gwendolyn Olive Baird in 1924.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cneotaph Database [06 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; School Admission records; Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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