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CAPLE, George Robert
(Service number 8/3883)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date *1888 Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs STEWART (friend), 12 Grosvenor St, Kensington, Dunedin
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 10th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date 4 March 1916
Transport Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From Wellington Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Otago 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

Carpenter

Death

Date 29 January 1958 Age 69 years
Place of Death Dunedin Public Hospital
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Andersons Bay Crematorium & Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference Block 45S, Plot 53
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Robert Caple was the second son of John and Mary (née Jenkins) Caple. He attended Port Chalmers School. He suffered a gunshot wound to the right aarm and back, which resulted in permanent injury. In 1923 he married Lavinia Hannah Mabel Grainger.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [14 December 2018]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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