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RATTRAY, Robert Rose Gunn
(Service number 27368)

Aliases
First Rank Lance Corporal Last Rank

Birth

Date 07/09/1882 Place of Birth Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Waimate
Occupation Stock auctioneer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs John RATTRAY (mother), Waimate
Religion Presbyterian
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 17th Reinforcements, J Company
Date 25 September 1916
Transport Devon
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

Clerk

Death

Date 13 November 1963 Age 81 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Waimate Lawn Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Rose Gunn Rattray was the youngest of the four sons of John and Jane (née Gunn) Rattray. he was only eight months old when his father died. Two of his brothers also served in World War I - Alexander Rattray and James McHardy Rattray, and the fourth brother, David John Rattray, was called up in 1916..R. R. G. Rattray embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; Waimate Lawn Cemetery headstone image; Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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