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Final rank:

Lance Corporal

First name/s

Charles Fletcher

Last name

JACKSON

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

30138
7th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company

Also known as

Charles Christian Fletcher JACKSON

Date of birth

21/11/1885

Place of birth

Norfolk Island

Date of death

12/01/1962

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1962/28829

Headstone/grave location

Russell Cemetery (Kororareka Cemetery), Russell, Far North District, Northland, New Zealand

Next of kin

Minnie Lenora Edmonds (wife)
John Jackson (father)
Evelina Eglantine Christian (mother)

Additional information

Enlisted 14 March 1916 and embarked Wellington 19 August 1916 to disembark Devonport, United Kingdom 25 October 1916. Attached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company Royal New Zealand Engineers 6 December 1916 to 28 February 1917 when posted to New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Transferred to hospitals in United Kingdom sick from 3 October 1917 and then to New Zealand Engineer Reserve Depot, Boscombe 3 October 1917. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 12 April 1918 and then from No.8 Rest Camp to the New Zealand Depot Unit of Supply in Marseille for passage to Egypt 16 May 1918 via SS Canberra. Posted to the Rarotongan Company in the field 15 June 1918. Returned via SS Malta 14 December 1918 and was discharged in New Zealand 7 March 1919. Died Auckland 12 January 1962.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Military plaque source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109706088/charles-fletcher-jackson

Rarotongan spelt incorrectly on plaque as Raratongan

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