Robert PINKERTON

Regimental number55621
OccupationFarmer
Next of kinWife, Mrs Sarah Daisy Pinkerton, Fairlie, Canterbury
Rank on embarkationCorporal
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinforcements, G Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board HMNZT 92 Ruahine on 15 August 1917
Final rankRifleman
Final unit1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
FateKilled in Action 27 March 1918
Age at death from cemetery records38
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsMailly Wood Cemetery (Special Memorial at North End of Row Q. Plot 11), Mailly-Mallet, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert John and Mary Pinkerton, Northumberland, England; Wife: Sarah Daisy Pinkerton, Fairlie
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 3: Roll 70, p. 28

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