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MARSH, John Blake
(Service number 6/1925)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (right panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #02)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	24 February 1889	Place of Birth	Arrowtown

Enlistment Information

Date	14 January 1915	Age	25
Address at Enlistment	Waimate, New Zealand
Occupation	Printer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William Jospeh Marsh, (Father), Newspaper Proprietor, Wyndham,Southland, New Zealand.
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion, 4th Re-inforcements
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo - Ship
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez. Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915, Gallipoli 1915
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	8 July 1915	Age	25
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair(NZ) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 13
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Mr J and Mrs Margaret Arther Marsh, Wyndham, Southland, New Zealand. Brother of Leslie Arthur, Mary Lane,Constance Elizabeth, Jeannette Balfour, and Matilda Gibbons.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (Oct 2013); CWGC(Oct 2013); Archways (Oct 2013); NZ War Graves (Oct 2013); NZBDM 1890/4539

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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