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SELWYN, John Kaahu
(Service number 34736)

Aliases	Enlisted as John SELWYN; known as Joe
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	17 July 1897	Place of Birth	Morven

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- F. Barbaer, Morven
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs SELWYN (mother), Morven, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
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	20th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	7 December 1916
Transport	Port Lyttelton
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Maori Pioneer Battalion

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

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 October 1975	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Holy Trinity Maori Cemetery, Arowhenua, Temuka
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Selwyn was the son of Mrs S. Selwyn, of Morven. He rerurned to New Zealand by the Westmorleland in April 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 February 2017]; Holy Trinity Maori Cemetery, Arowhenua, headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [19 February 2017]; Sun, 29 March 1919

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