DRENNAN, Oliver Percy
(Service number 3/1835)
| First Rank | Sergeant | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 05/06/1892 | Place of Birth | Canterbury, NZ |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | C/o Box 24, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Law clerk | ||
| Previous Military Experience | Infantry Ambulance - 2½ years; No. 6 Mounted field Ambulance - serving | ||
| Marital Status | Married | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs C. I. DRENNAN (wife), 34 Matilda Street, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | (1) New Zealand Expeditionary Force; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | (1) Hospital Ship No. 1, Maheno (Second Charter); (2) HMHS Maheno | ||
| Date | (1) Hospital Ship, No. 1, 2nd Voyage from NZ; (2) Hospital Ship, No. 1, 3rd Voyage from NZ | ||
| Transport | (1) Maheno; (2) Maheno | ||
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Military Awards
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 7 May 1929 | Age | 36 years |
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| Place of Death | Fairlie | ||
| Cause | Tuberculosis(?) | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Fairlie Cemetery | ||
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Biographical Notes
Oliver Percy Drennan, known as Percy, was born on 5 June 1892 in mid Canterbury, the son of Oliver and Honorah (née Dillon) Drennan. Percy married Christina Isabel Roberts on 11 November 1915 at Timaru. O. P. Drennan passed the medical examination at Timaru in September 1915 and was sworn in for service at the Front. He had served 2½ years with the Infantry Ambulance and was serving with No. 6 Mounted Rifles Ambulance when he enlisted.
Oilver died in 1929. The family understand the cause was tuberculosis.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [27 September 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [27 September 2020]; Fairlie Cemetery headstone transcription [27 September 2020]; Timaru Herald, 14 September 1915 (Papers Past) [26 September 2020]; SCROll web submission by C Drenna, 21 November 2024.
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