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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Timaru, Canterbury
• Land New Zealand
• Last residence Hilderthorpe, Otago
• Family Son of John Samuel and Anna Rosetta Taplin, of Pukeuri, Oamaru, New Zealand.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Trentham, 7 April 1916
• Service number 15255
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Otago Regiment
• Other data related to military career Embarkation: 26 July 1916, Wellington, New Zealand
  Left for France 20 October 1916

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds (received at Passchendaele) at n°2 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - C - 20

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