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MATHESON, Dugald George
(Service number 3/1278)

Aliases	Also Dougal
First Rank	Captain	Last Rank

Birth

Date	28/09/1888	Place of Birth	Springfield

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Care of Sanatorium, Rotorua
Occupation	Doctor
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Agnes MATHESON (mother), Wai-iti Road, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Medical Corps
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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

Doctor; sheep farmer

Death

Date	11 October 1935	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 36, Plot 86
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Dugald George MATHESON was the son of John and Agnes (nee SEAY) MATHESON, of Simons Pass Station in the Mackenzie Country. Their town house was Tignafeile House in Wai-iti Road, Timaru. Dugald was a doctor. He achieved the highest marks in New Zealand in his medical examination. He retired to "Roseneath" near Kurow in North Otago, which property included coal mines. His wife, Mary, died in 1930 in the collapse of one of those mines.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [09 October 2014]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, NZSG

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