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RATTRAY, James McHardy
(Service number 49004)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	13/06/1881	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs J. RATTRAY (mother), Waimate, South Canterbury
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	26th Reinforcements, G Company
Date	9 June 1917
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards	Meritorious Service Medal

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	7 August 1966	Age	85 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James McHardy Rattray was the third of the four sons of John and Jane (née Gunn) Rattray. He married Mary Gaffney in 1930.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [18 December 2018]; Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (NZSG cemetery records) [18 December 2018]; refer Press, 24 January 1920 (Papers Past)

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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