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EDWARDS, Claude James
(Service number 33037)

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Birth

Date 23 August 1885 Place of Birth Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Pleasant Point
Occupation Painter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married
Next of Kin Mrs M. M. EDWARDS (wife), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury; No 9 Chapel Street, Timaru; No 31 Le Cren's Terrace, Timaru
Religion Church of England
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 19th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date 15 November 1916
Transport Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 13 June 1955 Age 69 years
Place of Death Motueka
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Motueka Cemetery
Memorial Reference Block RSA, Row 1, Plot 16
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Claude James Edwards was the fourth son of Richard and Jessie (née Kitto) Edwards. He married Marion McAlister in 1908. His brother Richard Edwards enlisted for service in World War I. The Methodist Church of Timaru placed a handsome window in the Bank Street Church as a memorial for the war victims of the congregations. Apart from the names of the fallen appearing on the window, the names of all who served were inscribed in a book which was to be preserved in the Church. Included in the names was that of Claude Edwards.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 March 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 March 2020]; Motueka Cemetery burial record (Tasman District Council) [27 March 2020]; Timaru Herald, 5 July 1922 (Papers Past) [24 March 2020]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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