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SAVAGE, Alfred Frederick
(Service number 52652)

Sutherlands War Memorial, pictured in 2007
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Birth

Date 28/09/1893 Place of Birth Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Ma Waro
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Frederick SAVAGE (father), MaWaro
Religion Methodist
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, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company
Date 22 November 1917
Transport Willochra
Embarked From Destination Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Auckland Infnatry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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

Death

Date 22 October 1977 Age 84 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 177, Plot 810
New Zealand Memorials Sutherlands War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Alfred Frederick Savage was the son of Frederick and Annie Savage. He attended a number of schools - Pukeuri, St Andrews, Esk Valley, Lyalldale, Springbrook, Sutherlands. A. F. Savage 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 Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council); Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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