Profile

RATTRAY, Alexander
(Service number 78959)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/08/1878	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Kurow, Otago
Occupation	Stock agent
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs M. RATTRAY (wife), Kurow, Otago
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	40th Reinforcements, B Company
Date	10 July 1918
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

Agent

Death

Date	5 February 1937	Age	58 years
Place of Death	Kuriw
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alexander Rattray was the oldest of the four sons of John and Jane (née Gunn) Rattray. He married Marjory Smith on 21 November 1906 at Waimate. Two of his brothers also served in World War I - James McHardy Rattray and Robert Rose Gunn Rattray, and the fourth brother, David John Rattray, was called up in 1916..

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; Waimate Old Cemetery headstone transcription

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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