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OLIVER, Oscar Dudley
(Service number 7/1895)

Aliases
First Rank Sergeant Last Rank Trooper

Birth

Date 7 April 1892 Place of Birth Pleasant Point

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Pleasant Point
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin James OLIVER (father), Surrey Downs, Pleasant Point, South Canterbury
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date 9 October 0195
Transport Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date 17 April 1961 Age 69 years
Place of Death Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Pleasant Point Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 2, Plot 94
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Oscar Dudley Oliver, known as Dudley, was born on 7 April 1892 at Pleasant Point and baptised there, the youngest son of James and Ellen (Eleanor, née Josling) Oliver. The family farmed Surrey Downs from about 1871, James having come from Surrey, England. Mr Oliver died in 1926, predeceased by his wife (1914). Dudley was educated at Pleasant Point School, going on to the Boys’ High School (Timaru).

Lieutenant-Corporal O. D. Oliver, 7/1693, of Pleasant Point, returned to New Zealand from Egypt, in a draft of 1095, per the “Ulimaroa”, which was due at Auckland on 6 August 1919. Oscar Dudley Oliver died on 17 April 1961 at Timaru, aged 69 years, and was buried with his parents and several siblings at Pleasant Point. His brother, Albert Victor Oliver, also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 October 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [30 October 2020]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [29 November 2020]; Pleasant Point Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [30 October 2020]; NZ Times, 31 July 1919 (Papers Past) [29 October 2020]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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