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FORREST, Andrew Frederick
(Service number 21813)

Aliases	Frederick
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	James FORREST (father), Saint Andrews, South Canterbury
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	7th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	21 August 1916
Transport	Mokoia
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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

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Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	11 March 1963	Age	71 years
Place of Death	Kohika, St Andrews
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 140, Plot 137
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Andrew Frederick Forrest was the son of James and Alice Sophia Forrest, and a brother of Robert Henry Forrest.

Sources

Auckland War Memorlai Museum Cenotaph Database [26 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [23 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [28 December 2016]

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