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MELTON, James Robert
(Service number 34704)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J. Melton (mother), Morven
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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	HMNZT 71 Port Lyttleton
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon

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Biographical Notes

James Robert Melton was the son of James and Barbara Wallace Murdoch Melton (nee Kennard) of Morven.

James Robert Melton's was the nephew of Thomas Kennard (23194), brother in law of Lionel Arthur Marshall (46653), and cousin of both Donald McNicol Kennard (55278) and Herbert Hinman Jackson (38961) who also served during the war.

Sources

SCRoll submission by P Melton, 14 Jan 2018; Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 February 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum

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