Profile

STRACHEY, Richard Clive
(Service number 39115)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	17 November 1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Bank Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	C M Strachey (father), Gloucester Street, Christchurch
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Reinforcements G Company
Date	13 February 1917
Transport	HMNZT 77 Mokia
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade

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	4 August 1917	Age
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14384, 24 August 1917, Page 7
Memorial or Cemetery	Messines Ridge (NZ) Memorial
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru. Memorial Plaque Bank of New Zealand, BN Arcade, Wellington

Biographical Notes

Son of Claude Mainwaring and Emily Strachey of Christchurch. His brother, Claude Otto Strachey (service no.1294), also served.

Sources

Cenotaph, Archives NZ, BDM NZ

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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