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• Name METCALFE
• Initials J
• First name JAMES
• Place of birth Cray
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Masterton, New Zealand
• Family Son of Alice and John Metcalfe, of Kettlewell, near Skipton, Yorks, England.
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Trentham, 12 October 1915
• Service number 25/410
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 3rd Bn. Otago Regiment
• Division - Brigade 4th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from 4 - Bn. - Rifle Brigade
• Other data related to military career Embarked 5 February 1916; to France 28 May 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of multiple wounds in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 28 November 1917
• Died at the age of 34
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - AA - 1

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