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COLVILLE, Robert Arthur
(Service number 3/2761)

Aliases
First Rank	(1) Private; (2) Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Sergeant

Birth

Date	16 November 1891	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date	28 October 1916	Age	25 years 11 months
Address at Enlistment	72 Brittan Street, Avonside, Christchurch
Occupation	Law clerk
Previous Military Experience	1st Canterbury Regiment - serving
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs Isabella Margaret Colville (wife), 72 Brittan Street, Avonside, Christchurch
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 11 inches. Weight 146 lbs. Chest measurement 33-37 inches. Complexion fresh. Eyes grey. Hair dark brown. Sight, hearing & colour vision all normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Illness - bronchitis & gastric catarrh - 10 years ago. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No fits. Small scars knuckles right hand. Fit.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) New Zealand Expeditionary Force; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) HMHS Maheno; (2) HMHS Maheno
Date	(1) 19 January 1917; (2) 30 May 1917
Transport	(1) Maheno; (2) Maheno
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Medical Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns	HS Maheno 1917
Service Medals	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	20 December 1918	Reason	On Termination of Period of Engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	21 October 1960	Age	69 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause	Influenza
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Arthur Colville, born in 1891 at Temuka, was the oldest of the four sons of Arthur and Jessie Georgina (née Dyson) Colville. Robert married Isabella Margaret Kane on 7 June 1915 at Christchurch.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 October 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK18805 W5530 002726571) [04 November 2016], NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK18805 W5937 0358629) [04 November 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 October 2016]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [12 June 2017]; SCRoll web submission by E Swingler 14 June 2019

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