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PAINE, Douglas
(Service number 23/546)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	02/04/1895	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date	29 May 1915	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	Care of Mrs Wade, Theodocia Street, Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Mecer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	V. Paine (father), Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand
Religion	Anglican
Medical Information	Height: 5ft 10in. weight 126lb

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	HMNZT 30 Maunganui or HMNZT 31 Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian (1914-1915); Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1916); Western European (1916-1918)
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	1 August 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	14 August 1955	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph database (17 July 2015); Militay personnel file (17 July 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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