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WILCE, Samuel
(Service number 88202)

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Birth

Date 12 March 1887 Place of Birth Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date 11 June 1918 Age 31 years
Address at Enlistment 19 Holmes Street, Waimate
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married. One child
Next of Kin Mrs M. WEIR (wife), 19 Holmes Street, Waimate
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

Labourer

Death

Date 27 December 1957 Age 70 years
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Memorial or Cemetery Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Samuel Wilce was born on 12 March 1887 at Waimate, the fifth son of Edwin and Mary Jane (née Lobb) Wilce, who had married in 1875 in Cornwall, England, and come out to New Zealand where they had seven sons and two daughters. On 11 July 1912 at Waimate, Samuel married Mary Burrell. Their son, Eric Samuel Wilce, was born on 3 October 1915 at Waimate.

He was a labourer at Waimate when he enlisted on 11 June 1918, having been called up from the Second Division (married men with one child). He named his wife as next-of-kin - Mrs M. Wilce, 19 Holmes Street, Waimate. He was a member of the South Canterbury quota of the Forty-sixth Reinforcements which left Timaru by the north express on 9 September 1918 after parading at the drill hall. S. Wilce did not serve overseas.

He died on 27 December 1957, aged 70 years. Mary died in 1961. They are buried together in the Waimate Lawn Cemetery. His younger brother, Garnet Wilce, died of wounds on 11 August 1917 in France.

Sources

Waimate Daily Advertiser, 21 May 1918, Timaru Herald, 7 September 1918 (Papers Past) [08 October 2021; 03 February 2022]; NZ Birth Index (microfiche record) [01 February 2022]; NZ Death Index (Department of Internal Affairs) [01 February 2022]; Waimate Lawn Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [01 February 2022]

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