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SCOULAR, John Lamb
(Service number 6/540)

Private J L Scouler — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Aliases	also known as Scoullar
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	20 June 1891	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	8 November 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Beverley (Rd), Timaru
Occupation	Clerk BNZ
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs T. Scoullar, Edendale, New Zealand
Religion
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
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti ot Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1914-15, 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	Between 25 April 1915 and 1 May 1915	Age	23
Place of Death	Walkers's Ridge, Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial
Memorial Reference	Panel Reference 75
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; South Canterbury Savage Club Roll of Honour; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of the late Thomas Scoullar and Marion. Breother of Thomas James Scoullar.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (Sept 2013)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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