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GRAYBURN, Fred Watson
(Service number 6/1065)

Aliases
First Rank	Quartermaster Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	13 September 1894	Place of Birth	Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Geraldine
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	H. GRAYBURN, orari, South Canterbury
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury 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

Death

Date	20 April 1987	Age	93 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Geraldine Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 551, Plot 2
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Fred Watson Grayburn was the son of Harland and Hannah Grayburn. He married Vera Maud Chalmers in 1920.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 June 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Aaffairs) [29 June 2017]; Geraldine Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [9 June 2017]

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