DALE, Thomas John
(Service number 21803)
| First Rank | Rifleman | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 19 April 1894 | Place of Birth | Grange, County Armagh, Ireland |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Ohape, Temuka | ||
| Occupation | Farm labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | Mrs Sarah Jane BELL (sister), 18 Vogel Street, Richmond, Christchurch | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 7th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company | ||
| Date | 21 August 1916 | ||
| Transport | Mokoia | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Plymouth, Devon, England | |
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Military Awards
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 6 January 1925 | Age | 31 years |
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| Place of Death | Cashmere Hills, Christchurch | ||
| Cause | Not able to be discerned | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
Thomas John Dale, born in 1894 in County Armagh, Ireland, nominated his sister, Sarah Jane Bell, as his next-of-kin. Thomas and Sarah Jane had come to New Zealand in about 1906. Sarah Jane was some 25 years older than Thomas John Dale. In 1913, Sarah (Jane) married Thomas Bell. He left Timaru with the South Canterbury quota of the 16th Reinforcements on 3 May 1916. The badly decomposed body of Thomas john Dale was found in the Cashmere Hills on 22 February 1925. He was a returned soldier, who had been gassed and wounded during the war, and on his return he had suffered from the after-effects of his experiences there. His typewriter agency had been destroyed by fire, and at the time of his disappearance (5 January) he seemed very despondent over business matters. [see Press, 25 February 1925, 4 March 1925]. Sarah Jane and her husband Thomas Bell are buried in the same plot as Thomas John Dale.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [19 May 2019]; Bromley Cemetery headstone transcription [22 May 2019]; Timaru Herald, 2 May 1916, Press, 25 February 1925, 4 March 1925 (Papers Past) [02 August 2016; 22 May 2019]
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