Profile

MacRAE, John
(Service number 40831)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	20/08/1884	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	15 November 1916	Age	32
Address at Enlistment	Mesopotamia, Mt Somers
Occupation	Station manager
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs K MacRae, (mother) Kayle of Lochalch, Ross-shire, Scotland
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	23rd Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
Date	1 February 1917
Transport	Corinthic
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Europe 1917-18
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 August 1918	Age
Place of Death	Le Cateau, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Honnechy British Cemetery, Nord, France
Memorial Reference	I. B. 37
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial (as McRae)

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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