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DUNNAGE, Robert Gordon
(Service number 10/113)

Pte RG Dunnage — (Courtesy of C Knowles )

Pleasant Point School War Memorial — (Courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	29 January 1885	Place of Birth	Pleasant Point, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	17 August 1914	Age	29
Address at Enlistment	Dannevirke, New Zealand
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience	Bay of Islands Volunteers, 3 Years (disbanded)
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary Ada Dunnage (Mother), Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	Fit for service

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Limerick or Arawa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkans (Gallipoli)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, VIctory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

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

12 April 1915 - reported missing, Dardenelles (missing since 8 May); 16 January 1916 - Board Of Enquiry, Moascar Camp, Ismalia - Believed to be dead.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 May 1915	Age	30
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Pleasant Point School War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Mrs MA Dunnage of Mauka, Pukekohe, Auckland. Attended Pleasant Point School as a child.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [4 September 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5537 0036275) [4 September 2013]; Commonwealth War Graves Commission [9 September 2013]; SCRoll web submission by C Knowles, 5 May 2016

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