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DUNCAN, Victor
(Service number 6/1832)

Private V Duncan — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	14 May 1889	Place of Birth	Timaru, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	14 January 1915	Age	27
Address at Enlistment	Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Shearer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Francis Duncan (Father), Dee Street, Timaru New Zealand
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Fit for service

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra Or Knight Templar Or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury 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

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 July 1915	Age	26
Place of Death	Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 12
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of Francis And Mary Duncan, of Timaru.

Victor Duncan of Dee St Timaru was listed, in the 1913 Timaru Technical High School roll book, as studying sheep shearing.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [4/09/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. F481590203 4449419664) [4/8/2013]; CWGC (8/9/2013); Timaru Technical High School roll books (SCRoll web submission from J James, Mountainview High School, 23 March 2015)

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