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BRUCE, Robert Allan
(Service number 7/21)

Aliases Known as Allan. Also spelt Alan.
First Rank Corporal Last Rank Corporal

Birth

Date 27 March 1895 Place of Birth St Andrews

Enlistment Information

Date 15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915 Age
Address at Enlistment Kakahu, Geraldine
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Arthur Shackelton Bruce, Kakahu, Geraldine
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date 16 October 1914
Transport Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From Lyttelton Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

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Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 20 December 1975 Age 80 years
Place of Death Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Arundel Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 21, Plot 23
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Allan Bruce, known as Allan, was the son of Arthur Shackleton and Helen Mary (née Ladbrooke) Bruce. He started at Esk Valley School and transferred to Fernside School in North Canterbury at the age of six. Temporary Corporal A. R. Bruce, of Kakahu Bush, returned to New Zealand from Egypt per the troopship “Ellenga”, embarking at Suez on 23 July 1919 and arriving in late August. He married Fanny Augusta Elizabeth Dixon in 1923.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [August 2014 & 4 April 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [April 2020]; School Admission records [08 April 2020]; Arundel Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [07 April 2020]; Sun, 16 August 1919 (Papers Past) [04 April 2020]

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Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG; Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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