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TUBB, Gordon Henry
(Service number 7/2321)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	15/07/1893	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Victoria Street, Timaru
Occupation	Dairyman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Jane TUBB (mother), Victoria Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	19th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron
Date	4 March 1916
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

Gunshot wound to right thigh

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	29 March 1986	Age	92 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 51, Plot 272
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Gordon Henry Tubb was the son of William Henry and Jane Tubb. His brother Ernest Albert Tubb was killed in action in 1918 in France.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 January 2017]; Timaru cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [05 January 2017]

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