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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

William

Last name

MARSTERS

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

15568
15th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company,
Rarotongan Company

Also known as

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Date of birth

21/06/1891

Place of birth

War service documents record both Rarotonga and Palmerston Cook Islands (family to confirm island of birth)

Date of death

21/05/1940

Place of death

Te Kuiti, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1940/29151

Headstone/grave location

Te Kuiti Old Cemetery, Te Kuiti, Waitomo District, Waikato, New Zealand

Next of kin

Mrs Crowe (friend) Christchurch, New Zealand

Additional information

On enlistment at Trentham Camp on the 6 April 1916, he was working for the Public Works Department in Christchurch. Embarked per HMNZ Waitemata in Wellington 25 July 1916. Disembarked at Devonport and marched into Sling Camp 3 October 1916 WIA (Wounded In Action) 7 June 1917 and evacuated to the 77th Field Ambulance and then transferred to New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 3 July 1917. Evacuated sick 13 November 1917 and transferred to a number of hospitals before being admitted to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch. After discharge on 19 March 1918 he was transferred to the Rarotongan Detachment in Egypt. He moved to the 8th Rest Camp and then the 3rd New Zealand Depot Unit of Supply at Marseille for passage to Egypt on 16 May 1918. Joined the Rarotongan Company 15 June 1918, and returned to New Zealand on the SS Malta ill with malaria. Discharged 13 June 1919.

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Image credits and references

Colourised image: https://www.facebook.com/jecinci/

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