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Final rank:

2nd Lieutenant

First name/s

James Clarence

Last name

GRIFFITH

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

12/2580
Auckland Infantry Battalion
Royal Flying Corps

Also known as

Date of birth

12/02/1893

Place of birth

Auckland, New Zealand

Date of death

14/08/1970

Place of death

Hūnua, Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1970/46780

Headstone/grave location

Papakura Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Lawn Row K, Plot 38

Next of kin

Rev S. Griffith, Dunedin, New Zealand (father)
Ivy Scott Griffith (wife)

Additional information

Address and employer before enlistment: A. B. Donald Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Travelled to New Zealand from Rarotonga in March 1915 and in April 1915 enlisted at Trentham Military Training Camp, Trentham, Upper Hutt, near Wellington New Zealand.

He was discharged from the Auckland Infantry to a commission in the Royal Flying Corps in September 1916.

Shot down over hostile territory 12 July 1917 and was recorded as a Prisoner of War in Karlsruhe, and later in Augustabad, Bei Nau-Brandenburg and in Schweidnitz, Schlesien. Repatriated to New Zealand 25 December 1918.

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