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WELCH, Albert Ernest
(Service number 83795)

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Birth

Date	17/08/1885	Place of Birth	Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	33 Rathmore Street, Timaru
Occupation	Mechanic
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs E. M. WELCH (wife), 33 Rathmore Street, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
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Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
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Post-war Occupations

Motor mechanic

Death

Date	19 April 1946	Age	60 years
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Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Aramoho Cemetery, Wanganui
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Albert Ernest Welch was the son of Thomas Henry and Susan Welch, who are buried in the Ashburton Cemetery. Albert married Ethel May McWhinney on 24 December 1911 at Chalmers Church, Timaru. Late in 1917 he was drawn in the Second Ballot for Second Division Class A drafts.

Sources

Timaru Herald, 4 December 1917 (Papers Past) [08 August 2015]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 December 2019]; Aramoho Cemetery headstone transcription [26 December 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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