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MUNRO, Robert Donald
(Service number 7/95)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	04/03/1888	Place of Birth	Pareora

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimataitai, Timaru
Occupation	Carpenter & joiner
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Jane MUNRO (mother), Waimataitai, Timaru
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	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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 right leg

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	3 August 1962	Age	72 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 122, Plot 17
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Donald Munro, born on 4 March 1888 at Pareora, was the son of John Alexander Munro and his wife Jane née MacMillan. His brother Charles Vivian Munro also served abroad in World War One, and another, George Percival Munro, enlisted. Their father died in 1902 and their widowed mother lived on till 1951.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [30 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [30 December 2016]

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