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LARCOMBE, William
(Service number 63008)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	27/01/1887	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation	Bartender
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs M. LARCOMBE (wife), Waitohi Flat, Temuka
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date	21 November 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment

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

Labourer

Death

Date	8 December 1967	Age	80 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 173, Plot 725
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Larcombe was the second son of Thomas Taylor Larcombe and his wife Louisa née Radford. He attended a private school before starting at the Temuka School soon after he turned five.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 February 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [25 February 2017]

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