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McNAMARA, Thomas
(Service number 24196)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Bridget Hansen (sister), c/o A Hansen, Blacksmith, Geraldine, NZ.
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	13th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company.
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport, England.

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Machine Gun Corps.

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	26 March 1921	Age	39 years
Place of Death
Cause	Died after discharge from the NZEF from wounds inflicted or disease contracted while on active service.
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Geraldine Cemetery, South Canterbury, NZ.
Memorial Reference	New Row 121, Plot 11.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of James & Mary Ann McNamara, "Cottesmere", Kyeburn, Otago.

Sources

Cenotaph

External Links

Researched and Written by

Lesley Tennent (SC branch NZSG)

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