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ANNAND, Stanley George Watson
(Service number 7/2226)

Chalmers Church memorial plaque, photographed in 2010 — South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.28 (South Canterbury Museum )

Timaru South School Memorial plaque, 2010 — Mounted on a brick pillar at the School's front gate (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	27/09/1894	Place of Birth	Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Warehouse assistant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs John Annand (mother), 83 High Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	10th Reinforcements Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron
Date	3 April 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	CanterburyInfantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

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

Death

Date	10 January 1916	Age	22
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, TimaruTimaru South School WW1 Memorial plaque (as S W Annand?)

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Ann (nee Byres) Annand of Timaru. Three sons, brothers served in WW1: William James Annand (6/3239); Stanley George Watson Annand (7/2226) killed in action 1916 and Arthur Douglas Annand (14047).

Sources

Cenotaph Aug 2013

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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