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IRVING, Robert
(Service number 4/1940)

Otaio War Memorial, pictured in 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.14 #01)

Name plaque (A-H)), St Andrews War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.19 #02)

St Andrews War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.19 #01)

Otaio War Memorial name plaque, pictured in 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.14 #02)

Aliases
First Rank	Sapper	Last Rank	Sapper

Birth

Date	28/12/1881	Place of Birth	Glasgow, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	16 November 1915	Age	30
Address at Enlistment	Otaio, South Canterbury
Occupation	Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs G Irving (Mother) Otaio, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 foot 7 inches, Complexion Fair, Eyes Grey, Hair Brown

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	10th Reinforcements NZ Engineers
Date	3 April 1916
Transport	Willichra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	NZ Engineers, No 1 Field Company
Last Unit Served With	NZ Engineers, No 1 Field Company

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	Egyptian E.F. 1916, Western European 1916-1917, British War Medal, Plaque
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

28/3/1917 Dangerously wounded admitted to North Midlands Casualty Clearing Station

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	30 March 1917	Age	32
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of Wounds
Notices	Timaru Herald 10 April 1917
Memorial or Cemetery	Bailleul Communal Cemetery Estension, Nord. France
Memorial Reference	III. B. 40
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Otaio War Memorial; St Andrews War memorial

Biographical Notes

Robert Irving was the son of Ellen Irving, of Aokautere, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and the late George Irving, of Glasgow, Scotland.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, August 2013, CWGC.

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