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ANDERSON, Arthur
(Service number 7/1940)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	1 May 1888	Place of Birth	Invercargill

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Church Street, Timaru
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs E. MURRAY (sister), Church Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	9th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

Wounded - reported April 1918

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 February 1986	Age	89
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Arthur Anderson, who was born on 1 May 1888 at Invercargill, was living in Timaru - probably with his married sister - when he enlisted. He was a labourer at the Royal Hotel, Timaru. In the New Zealand Herald of 13 April 1918 Arthur was reported wounded.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 January 2017]; New Zealand Herald, 13 April 1918 (Papers Past) [31 December 2016]

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