MacFARLANE, Hugh Miller
(Service number 55518)
| First Rank | Lance Corporal | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 28/11/1885 | Place of Birth | North Canterbury |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Hawkewood, Parnassus | ||
| Occupation | Sheep farmer | ||
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| Marital Status | Married. One child | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs H. M. MacFARLANE (wife), care of E. D. Giles, Otiritiri, Tycho Mail, Timaru; Waikora, Private Bag, Waimate | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 31st Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade | ||
| Date | 13 November 1917 | ||
| Transport | Tofua | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Suez, Egypt | |
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 12 July 1963 | Age | 77 years |
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| Place of Death | Christchurch | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Cremated; ashes interred Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch | ||
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Biographical Notes
Hugh Miller Macfarlane was born on 28 November 1885 in North Canterbury, the son of john Donald and Margaret Hart (née Gibson) Macfarlane. He married Prudence Giles on 8 May 1917 at St Mary’s Church, Timaru. Their daughter, Emma Prudence, was born on 22 April 1918 at Timaru, six months after Hugh, a sheep farmer at Parnassus, had embarked for the Front. Private H. H. Macfarlane returned home in Draft 210, which brought seventy invalided soldiers for Canterbury and the West Coast, due to reach New Zealand in late January 1919. After the war Hugh returned to sheep farming, living in different parts of South Canterbury, including “Waikora”, Waihaorunga, and “Ruataniwha”, Lake Tekapo. His brother, Walter Angus Macfarlane, also served in World War I.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 September 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [11 September 2020]; Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch, burial record (Christchurch City Council) [12 September 2020]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [12 September 2020]; Timaru Herald, 25 January 1919 (Papers Past) [08 September 2020]
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