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BEE, Charles Edwin
(Service number 12326)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	13/04/1890	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Masterton
Occupation	Stock buyer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Samuel BEE (father), Kingsdown, via Timaru
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	6th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company
Date	6 May 1916
Transport	Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Regiment

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

Farmer

Death

Date	27 June 1967	Age	77 years
Place of Death	Palmerston North
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 28 June 1967
Memorial or Cemetery	Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North
Memorial Reference	Area DA, Block 002, Plot 007
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Edwin Bee was the son of Samuel and Arabella (née Raddon) Bee, of Kingsdown near Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 February 2017]; Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North, headstone image (Palmerston North City Council) [24 February 2017]

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