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MECHEN, George
(Service number 8/243)

Aliases
First Rank Corporal Last Rank

Birth

Date 19/10/1892 Place of Birth Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Kaitangata
Occupation Miner
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin John MECHEN, C/- J. Drake, Sandy Knolls, Timaru, Canterbury
Religion
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 Otago Infantry Battalion
Date 16 October 1914
Transport Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From Port Chalmers, Dunedin Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

Railway employee

Death

Date 15 July 1969 Age 76 years
Place of Death Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Mechen was the younger son of John and Isabella (née Thompson) Mechen. His mother died in June 1897 at Kaitangata, at the birth of her fifth child. George was educated at schools in Kaitangata, Dunedin and Timaru. G. Mechen 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.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 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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