Profile

DUNNAGE, Spencer Timaru
(Service number 23531)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	04/11/1894	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs L.A. Dunnage (Mother), 96 Dairymple Road, Invercargill, New Zealand
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	13th Reinforcements Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth or Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European (Somme)
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	27 September 1916	Age	21
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Winchester War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of William Herbert And Laura Adela Dunnage of 89 Dairymple Rd, Invercargill, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [4 September 2013]; Commonwealth War Graves Commission [9 September 2013]; SCRoll web submission by C Knowles, 5 May 2016

External Links

Researched and Written by

Patrina Buchanan

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