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CHRISTIE, John
(Service number 80055)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	27 October 1879,	Place of Birth	Forfar, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Mt Aitken, Waimate
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs C. CHRISTIE (wife), Theodocia Street, Timaru
Religion	Protestant
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealan Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	42nd Reinforcements, A Company
Date	1 August 1918
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Rifle Brigade

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

Farmer

Death

Date	3 September 1958	Age	78 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 53, Plot 627
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Christie married Clara Saxon in 1914 in New Zealand. Late in 1917 he was drawn in the Second Ballot for Second Division Class A drafts. When he enlisted he was a shepherd near Waimate while Clara was residing at Timaru. .

Sources

Timaru Herald, 4 December 1917 (Papers Past) [08 August 2015]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 December 2019]; Timaru Cemetery headstone images (Timaru District Council) [22 December 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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