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GRESSON, Kenneth Mcfarlane
(Service number 6/956)

Aliases
First Rank	Captain; Major	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18/07/1891	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	12 August 1914, 4 March 1916	Age
Address at Enlistment	20 Jackson Rd, Fendalton, Christchurch
Occupation	Law Clerk for Izard Longman, Christchurch
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs S.T. Gordon, Union Bank, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic; Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington; Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt; Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1914-15-16, Balkans 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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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