Sydney Elliott Skellern
SERVICE
No.
12/463
RANK
Private
SURNAME
Skellern
FIRST
NAMES/INITIALS
Sydney Elliott
BODY
OR DRAFT
Main Body
UNIT
Auckland Infantry Regiment
EMBARKED
Left New Zealand 16th October 1914
ADDRESS
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
NEXT
OF KIN
George
Elliott & Emma Skellern., Mamaku, Rotorua County, Auckland, New Zealand
BORN
1895
DIED
08th August 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey
GRAVE/MEMORIAL
REFERENCE
Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial 11
SERVICE
MEDALS & CLASPS
1914-1915
Star: British War Medal: Victory Medal; Gallipoli Medallion.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
Died
of Wounds.
Educated at Mamaku School and was engaged in the timber industry, was a keen member of the territorials for a number of years. Secretary of the Oddfellows Lodge and an enthusiatic member of the Mamaku Sports Club. He enlisted with the first party of New Zealander's which landed at Gallipoli, since then he had been twice wounded and finally met his death in the last great dash of the New Zealander's at Anzac [AWN 02.12.1915].
Educated at Mamaku School and was engaged in the timber industry, was a keen member of the territorials for a number of years. Secretary of the Oddfellows Lodge and an enthusiatic member of the Mamaku Sports Club. He enlisted with the first party of New Zealander's which landed at Gallipoli, since then he had been twice wounded and finally met his death in the last great dash of the New Zealander's at Anzac [AWN 02.12.1915].
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