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HOUSTON, David Kyle
(Service number 62981)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Musterer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	H. HOUSTON (brother), Shamrock Hotel, 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	33rd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company
Date	31 December 1917
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
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Discharge

Date		Reason

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Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	9 November 1946	Age	58 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

David Kyle Houston was the youngest son of David and Mary Matilda (née Crawford) Houston. David attended Timaru Main School. His brother Robert John Houston was killed in action in 1916, and another brother, Hillis Houston, also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [31 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [30 December 2016]

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