QUIN, Benjamin
(Service number 7/104)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank | Sergeant |
|---|
Birth
| Date | Unknown | Place of Birth | Boness, Linlithgowshire, Scotland |
|---|
Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address at Enlistment | Studholme Junction | ||
| Occupation | |||
| Previous Military Experience | |||
| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs Isabella QUIN (mother), Mayfield Terrace, Boness, Scotland | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
|---|
Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Main Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Canterbury Mounted Rifles | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | Tahiti or Athenic | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | ||
| Other Units Served With | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Unit Served With | |||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Medals | |||
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 |
Death
| Date | 12 August 1952 | Age | 66 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Death | |||
| Cause | |||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Cremated, ashes interred Karori Cemetery, Wellington | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
Benjamin Quin was the only son of William and Isabella Quin, of Boness, Scotland. he was at home with his family at Boness in 1891 and again in 1901 when he was an apprentice butcher. In November 1911 he left from London for Fremantle, Australaia. Not three years later he had joined the New Zealand Forces. In 1922 he married Margaret (Maggie) Kirkwood Torrance. Maggie died in 1927 and is buried in a Torrance plot at Southern Cemetery in Dunedin.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum cenotaph Database [23 June 2019]; Scotland census transcriptions (ancestry.com.au) [30 June 2019]; Karori cremation & burial records (Wellington City Council) [30 June 2019]; Timaru Herald, 20 August 1914, Evening Star, 27 January 1927 (PP) [June, 2019; 30June 2019]
External Links
Related Documents
No documents available.
Researched and Written by
Currently Assigned to
Not assigned.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.