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DUNSFORD, Norman Guthric Chalmers
(Service number 8/35)

Sergeant N G C Dunsford — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Waimataitai School War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Timaru Boys High School Memorial Library plaque (1914-1918), pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Timaru South School Memorial plaque, 2010 — Mounted on a brick pillar at the School's front gate (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	23 July 1891	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	15 August 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Eden Street, Oamaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Bank Clerk
Previous Military Experience	Second Lieutenant, Senior Cadets, Timaru
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	W.G. Dunsford (Father), Stafford Street, Timaru, New Zealand
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	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago 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	5 March 1915	Age	23
Place of Death	Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 75
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Timaru Boys High School War Memorial (Library); Timaru South School WW1 Memorial plaque; Waimataitai School War Memorial?; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of Fannie Elizabeth Dunsford and the late William George Dunsford of 60, Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Native of Invercargill.

Before enlisting Norman was a Second Lietenant in the Senior Cadets at Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [4/09/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. 649544031 3807108 298) [9/9/2013]; CWGC 9/9/2013;

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Patrina Buchanan

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