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JOHNSTON, Matthew Alexander
(Service number 78598)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Trooper

Birth

Date 5 January 1899 Place of Birth Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Wai-iti Road, Timaru
Occupation Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin William JOHNSTON (father), Bank of Australasia, Timaru
Religion Presbyterian
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 43rd Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles
Date 11 October 1918
Transport Moeraki
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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

Government valuer

Death

Date 4 July 1961 Age 62 years
Place of Death Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference Services Block 1B, Plot 85
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Matthew Alexander johnson was the son of William and Allison Shanks (née Lithgow) Johnston. Trooper M. A. Johnston returned to New Zealand from Egypt per the troopship “Ellenga”, embarking at Suez on 23 July 1919 and arriving in late August. He married Rhona Estelle Matson in 1927.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 April 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [April 2020]; Sun, 16 August 1919 (Papers Past) [04 April 2020]

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