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28 November 1917 : James Metcalfe

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James Metcalfe was born at Cray, Yorkshire on 5 November 1883. Aged 17, he emigrated to Masterston, New Zealand. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he was employed as a labourer in Whakatane. He enlisted into the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on 12 October 1915 and embarked for Egypt on 5 February 1916. After several weeks in Egypt, he was transferred...