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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Dunedin
• Land New Zealand
• Last residence Wairoa, Hawkes Bay
• Family Son of Anthony and Juliet Mary Christophers ;
  three brothers, Victor, Herbert and Reginald also died during WWI; husband of Earle F. Christophers, of 7, Rossmore Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand ; father of Juliet Christophers.
• Education Southland Boys' High
• Profession Company manager
• Extra info Southland representative rugby player in 1902-03 and captained the Invercargill team

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Wairoa, 18 December 1916
• Service number 45998
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment
• Other data related to military career EMBARKATION: 26 April 1917, Wellington
  Left for France 5 August 1917

Death

• Wounded 5 December 1917
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in back and abdomen in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 33
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - B - 17

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