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Name

Jack Stanley Wooster

Birth: 18th July 1917, Southbrook, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Death: 7th April 1993, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.    Tree

Lieutenant Wooster taken outside the mail gate at Burnham Military Camp in the late 1950s and at Bisley (17 Aug 1945). New Zealand riflemen at Bisley to take part in the National Rifle Association's first shoot since the start of the war. Jack is in the front row, third from the right as we look.

Regiment: 20 Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Rank: Captain

Service no. 8057

Enlistment Place: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Enlistment Date: 4 September 1939

Embarkation Place: Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Embarkation Date: 05 January 1940

Embarkation Body: 20 Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Vessel: Dunera

POW: 25 April 1941



After the war Jack appeared as a witness in a court martial:



Sources: Auckland War Memorial Museum, To the Warrior His Arms, Papers Past (Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 41, 17 August 1945), (Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941), (Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24583, 4 June 1945), Evening Star, Issue 25789, 11 May 1946                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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  26 September 2021