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GUNN, George
(Service number 10/1830)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	19/06/1875	Place of Birth	Hyde, Otago

Enlistment Information

Date	1 November 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Mrs D Hyland (Sister), Police Station, Temuka
Occupation	Driver for S Richardson, Kimbolton
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Kimbolton, Wellington
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templaror Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915, Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915, Prisoner of war 1915-18
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	22 September 1943	Age	68
Place of Death	Wanganui
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

POW Aflon Kara Hissar, Turkey #2924

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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