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DUNSTAN, Edgar
(Service number 2/151)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	R.N.Z.A. Depot, Wellington
Occupation	Bombardier
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	T. H. R. DUNSTAN, Belt Street, Waimate
Religion
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	New Zealand Field Artillery
Date
Transport	Arawa or Limerick
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

Civil servant

Death

Date	28 April 1959	Age	69 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Area 37, Plot 33
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edgar Dunstan was the son of Thomas Henry Ripper and Rosina (née Vincent) Dunstan, and a brother of Charles Ernest and william Arthur Dunstan who also served in World War One. .

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [24 February 2017]; Ruru Cemetery, Christchurch headstone transcription (Canterbury Branch NZSG) [24 February 2017]

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