Profile

ROWE, James
(Service number 49786)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	18/01/1887	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Herekino
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	P. ROWE (father), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury
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	27th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, a Company
Date	13 June 1917
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Infantry Regiment

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	2 July 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	16 September 1967	Age	80 years
Place of Death	Kaitaia
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Kaitaia Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Returned Servicesmens Section, Plot 87
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Rowe was the third son of Peter and Mary (née Fraser) Rowe. His parents had married at Timaru, and both are buried at Pleasant Point. His brother, Samuel Rowe, also served in World War I.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [5 January 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [05 January 2019]; Kaitaia Cemetery Burial record (Far North District Council) [05 January 2019]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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