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McGILLIVRAY, Robert David
(Service number 21/40)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	26/09/1895	Place of Birth	Mataura

Enlistment Information

Date	9 October 1915	Age	20 years
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Civil servant
Previous Military Experience	Divisional Signal Company (still serving)
Marital Status	Single, then married Hilda elizabeth HOWES on 25 July 1918 at St Giles Registry Office.
Next of Kin	Mr J. A. McGILLIVRAY (father), Maltby Street, Timaru; also Mrs H. E. McGILLIVRAY (wife), 50 King's Road, Brownswood Park, No 4, England
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 11 inches.Weight 160 lbs. Chest measurement 36-38 inches. Complexion dark. Eyes brown. Hair black. Sight - both eyes 6/6 inches. Hearing and colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. Full and perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart and lungs normal. teeth good. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily and mental health. No slight defects. No fits.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date
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Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Engineers

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	13 December 1918	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	4 September 1983	Age	87 years
Place of Death	Palmerston North
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tiro Tiro Road Cemetery, Levin
Memorial Reference	Blck 51, Plot 70
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert David McGILLIVRAY was born on 26 September 1895 at Mataura, the son of James McGILLIVRAY. In 1912 Robert was in Timaru with his father. No address is given for R. D. McGillivray on enlistment, possibly because he was employed in the Defence Department.

Sources

NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5544 0073309) [01 July 2016]

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