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TAIT, Joseph
(Service number 29315)

Aliases
First Rank Bombardier Last Rank

Birth

Date 07/07/1887 Place of Birth Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Oxford
Occupation Farrier
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mr Geo TAIT (father), Peel Forest, 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 20th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery
Date 2 January 1917
Transport Opawa
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

Blacksmith

Death

Date 15 April 1963 Age 75 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joseph Tait was born on 7 July 1887 at Ashburton, the youngest son of George and Ann (Annie, née Comrie) Tait. Bombardier Tait embarked with the 20th Reinforcements on 2 January 1917. Farrier Tait returned to New Zealand in March 1918 by Draft 147. Joseph married Grace Lena Jones in 1919. He died on 15 April 1963, aged 75 years. His brother James died of disease on 15 September 1917, and his mother died about ten days later. Another brother, Henry, also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 January 2021]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [19 January 2021]; Eastern Suburbs Crematorium, NSW, record (ancestry.com.au) [19 January 2021]; Sun, 13 March 1918 (Papers Past) [16 January 2021]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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