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• Name GODFREY
• Initials JA
• First name JAMES ALFRED
• Place of birth Picton
• Country Marlborough, New Zealand
• Last residence Palmerston street, Westport
• Family Son of Charles Alfred and Bridget Annie Godfrey, of Picton, New Zealand.
• Profession Railway shunter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 29 August 1914, Christchurch
• Service number 6/1031
• Rank Company Serjeant Major
• Medals D C M, M M
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked 16 October 1914, Lyttelton

Death

• Wounded 24 December
• Type of wounds Died of concussion of the brain, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 26 December 1917
• Died at the age of 37
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - CC - 3

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