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DUNFORD, Donald Joseph
(Service number 13745)

Aliases Birth registered Joseph Donald DUNFORD
First Rank Rifleman Last Rank

Birth

Date 06/03/1894 Place of Birth Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment C/o Gardners Mill, Turangarere
Occupation Mill hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Alfred DUNFORD (father), 117 Nelson Street, Petone, Wellington
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 8th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company
Date 26 June 1916
Transport Tahiti or Maunganui
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

Death

Date 25 February 1979 Age 84 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Maunu Cemetery, Whangarei
Memorial Reference RSA Block 17, Plot 849
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Donald Joseph Dunford was the fifh son of Alfred and Alice Amelia (née Harding) Dunford. Alfred had arrived with his family at Lyttleton in 1851 on the "Cressy". He was educated at Geraldine District High School before the family moved to Petone in 1905-06. His mother had died in 1905, nine months after the birth of her fourteenth child. His brother Alfred Dunford also served in World War I, as did two cousins - Charles Christopher Dunford and Edward Samuel Dunford.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [20 July 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [20 July 2019]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [20 July 2019]; Cemetery record (Whangarei District Council) [21 July 2019]; Manawatu Times, 11 February 1916 (Papers Past) [21 July 2019]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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