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Final rank:

Second Lieutenant

First name/s

Arthur Duncan

Last name

MacARTHUR

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

3/2108
New Zealand Medical Corps
Rarotongan Company

WWII - Gisborne Battalion, Home Guard

Also known as

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Date of birth

15/12/1873 (as per service record)

Place of birth

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of death

10/05/1951

Place of death

Gisborne, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1951/22573

Headstone/grave location

Tareheru Cemetery, Gisborne, New Zealand

Next of kin

Mrs Elizabeth G. MacArthur (wife), Tangoio, Napier, New Zealand

Additional information

Enlisted 14 February 1915 and embarked at Wellington 1 May 1916 to arrive Suez 9/6/1916. Employed in New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment & Base Depot until 20 January 1917 when he was posted to the New Zealand Mounted Field Ambulance and was appointed cook from 1 May 1915 to 30 June 1918.
On 1 July 1918 he was recommended for a commission specifically for the Rarotongan Company and underwent training and from 26/9/1918 was a 2nd Lieutenant with the Rarotongan Company.
Discharged 7 March 1919. Fluent in oral and written Māori and employed as a Māori school teacher for four years prior to enlistment.

Images and documents

Image credits and references

War service record: Image licence AABK 18805 W5520 12 / 0007670 Archives New Zealand

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