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GOURLEY, Arthur Victor
(Service number 58514)

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

Aliases	Gourlay
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	26/05/1897	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Salesman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Arthur Langsdown Gourlay (father) Evans St, Timaru
Religion	Pres
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements,Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	HMNZT 92, Ruahine
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, C Company

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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	30 August 1918	Age	21
Place of Death	France
Cause	died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	VI D 22
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimataitai School War Memorial (as V Gourley)

Biographical Notes

son of Arthur Langsdown & Mary Ann Gourlay, 415 River Rd, Dallington, Christchurch

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Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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