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EDYVEAN, Louis
(Service number N/N)

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Birth

Date	20/09/1889	Place of Birth	New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Sophia Street, Timaru
Occupation	Mechanical Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs E. EDYVEAN (wife), "Roselea", Sophia Street, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
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Prisoner of War Information

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Post-war Occupations

Salesman

Death

Date	23 January 1963	Age	73 years
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Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 55, Plot 894
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Louis Edyvean was the eldest son of John and Mary Jane (née Jago) Edyvean, both from Cornwall, England. Louis was educated at Pleasant Point School. He married Eleanor Gounld on 12 April 1911 in Chalmers Presbyterian Parish, Timaru. Their son, Harold Louis Edyvean, who was born in 1921, served in World War II.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) 10 September 2019]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) 10 September 2019; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [10 September 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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