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DUNFORD, Edward Samuel
(Service number 7/711)

Trooper Edward Samuel Dunford — (Auckland Weekly News, 5 August 1915, p40 )

Aliases	Sometimes written Edwin
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	289 King Street, Temuka
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	H. DUNFORD (father), 289 King Street, Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date
Transport	Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
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

Cabinetmaker

Death

Date	21 December 1964	Age	77 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland
Memorial Reference	Servicemen's Area L, Row 1, Plot !
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edward Samuel Dunford was the youngest son of Henry (Harry) and Margaret Jane (née Cotton). Henry had arrived with his family at Lyttleton in 1851 on the "Cressy" and married Irish-born Margaret Jane in 1866 at Christchurch. Charles Christopher Dunford, a brother of Edward, served in World War I, as did two cousins - Alfred Dunford and Donald Joseph Dunford, and three nephews - Albert William Fisher, George Duncan Fisher and James McNicol Fisher.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [20 July 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [20 July 2019]; Temuka Leader, 29 March 1904, 6 September 1904, 25 March 1905, 1 June 1905, 23 December 1905, 3 February 1906, 31 March 1906, 12 May 1906, 16 February 1907, 2, 9 & 14 March 1907, 11 Junre 1907, 28 December 1909, 18 April 1911, 16, 23 & 30 May 1911, 20 June 1911, 25 July 1911, 10 August 1911, 23 September 1911, 17 December 1912, 2 January 1913, 4 March 1913, 3 May 1913, 5 June 1913, 5, 26 & 31 July 1913, 9 August 1913, 14 October 1913 [x 2], 8, 15 & 22 November 1913, 31 January 1914, 12 February 1914, 19 & 31 March 1914, 21 April 1914, 3 October 1914, 2 & 6 January 1917, 19 June 1917, 10 & 22 May 1919, 7 & 26 June 1919, 31 July 1919, 16 & 30 August 1919, 18 & 28 October 1919, 20 & 22 November 1919, 16 December 1919, 5, 14 & 19 February 1920, 23 & 25 March 1919, 9 December 1920, 4 January 1921, 12 & 14 April 1921, 11 September 1926, Timaru Herald, 6 October 1914, 18 September 1915, Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1914, 12 June 1915, Otago Daily Times, 11 June 1915, 8 October 1915, 11 September 1926, New Zealand Times, 15 & 17 September 1915, Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1915, Evening Post, 7 October 1915, Sun, 26 April 1919, Waikato Times, 25 May 1923, New Zealand herald, 22 September 1932, 12 May 1938, 19 May 1939 (Papers Past) [20, 21 & 22 July 2019]; Waikumete Cemetery record (Auckland Council) [21 July 2019]

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