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Trooper JOHN GUTHRIE BRASS KIRKNESS

Service Number: 7/1373
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

Date of Death

Died 10 December 1915

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CANTERBURY CEMETERY, ANZAC

II. B. 4.

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William Robert Brass Kirkness and Jane Guthrie Kirkness, of Midhouse, Kirkness, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland.
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Buried or commemorated at

CANTERBURY CEMETERY, ANZAC
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Number of casualties: 27
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