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MERCER, Edgar Joseph
(Service number 47504)

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	Joe Mercer
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	28 February 1882	Place of Birth	Makikikhi, South Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date	2 February 1917	Age	34
Address at Enlistment	Makikihi.
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience	Territorials, Studholme Mounted Rifles.
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Margaret Mercer (mother), Makikihi, Canterbury, NZ.
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	27th Reinforcements (First Draft) Specialists Company, Signal Section.
Date	12 June 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ	Destination	England.

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Entrenching Battalion.

Military Awards

Campaigns	Battle of Lys, Flanders 1918.
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	14 April 1918	Age	36 years
Place of Death	Meteren, France.
Cause	Killed in Action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Messines Ridge (NZ) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium.
Memorial Reference	Messines Ridge (NZ) Memorial
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Sources

Cenotaph

External Links

Researched and Written by

Cynthia McCaughan (SC branch NZSG); Lesley Tennent (SC branch NZSG)

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