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WEIR, James Benjamin
(Service number 14172)

Aliases	Jim
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12 December 1893	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Slaughterman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs M. WEIR (mother), Washdyke, Timaru
Religion
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	5th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

January 1917 dangerously ill but improving. July 1917 returning to New Zealand soon; 'wounds all healed now'.

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of William & Martha Frances (nee FOX) WEIR. Brother Francis was killed in action in 1918 at the Somme. Brother Thomas William WEIR also served in WWI. Educated at Purakanui & Waimataitai Schools. Died December 1951. Extracts from letters home of Jim & Bill reprinted in Timaru Herald, 12 January 1917. Extract from letter home from hospital reprinted in Timaru Herald, 16 July 1917. [See Bio.]. Arriving home from the front on 27 September 1917, by express train from Lyttelton (after hospitalisation for wounds)

Sources

Cenotaph Database [7 November 2013]; TDC burial record, Timaru Cemetery [11 November 2013]; NZ BDM historical records [11 November 2013]. Timaru Herald, 2 January 1917, 12 January 1917, 16 July 1917, 17 September 1917, 27 September 1917 & 28 September 1917 (Papers Past) [11 November 2013].

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