Personal Details

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Nationality New Zealand
Date of Birth 17 April 1866
Place of Birth Northumberland, England
Veterinary College and Date of Graduation New Edinburgh - May 1888

Military Service

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Last Rank Captain
Regiment/Service New Zealand Army Veterinary Corps
Secondary Regiment
Secondary Unit
First Theatre of War Unknown Date

Casualty Details

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Date of Death 05 April 1917
Age at Death 51
Place of Death Christchurch, New Zealand
Cause of Death Alcoholism

Cemetery

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Cemetery Lindwood Cemetery
Location Christchurch, New Zealand
Grave Reference Block 35. Plot 308
Commonwealth War Grave No
Emblem or Badge on Headstone Private Grave with no headstone

Honours and Memorials

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Name on RCVS Honour Board Yes
Name In Officers who died in Great War No
Medals and Awards

Biography

Captain Thomas Lilico MRCVS was born in 1866. He graduated from Edinburgh University in May 1888. He lived for a period in Canada and the United States before settling in New Zealand. He was appointed Captain on 5 February 1904, having previously served in South Africa.

Captain Lillico served with the New Zealand Veterinary Corps in the early years of the war but was discharged from service in March 1916 due to varicose veins.

He died on 5 April 1917. An inquest into his death shows that he died of alcoholism.

He is buried in Linwood Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand. He does not have a Commonwealth War Grave.

Thomas Lillico’s death was reported in the Veterinary Record on 9 June 1917.