Family
ALEXANDER (Alec) MEE - Timeline
15 April 1886 - born at East Taeiri
3 January 1917 - NZ military service as an Infantryman began
27 February 1917 - Married Jessie Merrilees Coutts
5 April 1917 - Departed NZ aboard HMS Devon as part of 24th Reinforcements
11 June 1917 - Marched into Sling Camp, England to continue training
6 July 1917 - Left Sling for France
10 July 1917 - Arrived Etaples base-camp, France, to complete training
11 August 1917 - Joined 14th Company, 2nd Battalion, Otago Regiment
10 October - Moved into the 'firing line' for the 2nd time
12 October 1917 - 14th Company, 2nd Battalion, Otago Regiment assembled for an attack on Bellevue Spur in Battle of Passchendaele
12 Oct 1917 - Alec Mee Killed in attack on Bellevue Spur, Belgium
20 November 1917 - Court of In quiry finds he was "Missing believed killed in the field". He was a few days short of 31 years 6 months old.
20 November 1917 - son Alexander Coutts Mee born at East Taeiri