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CALDER, John
(Service number 24/989)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	c/- Orr Brothers, Waitohi
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Grace Calder (mother), South Birbiston, Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Battalion, NZ Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	D Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Rifle Brigade, 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	12 October 1917	Age	29
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	XXXIX. E. C
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Albury War Memorial; Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Grace and James Calder of Lennoxtown, Scotland

Sources

Cenotaph Oct 2013

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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