Taitara

• Lance Corporal
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 16 August 2015 - Military Record (corrected)
• Lieutenant Corporal
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

David Small AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Bruce AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

David Martin Small BRUCE

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Nama Hōia

• 1385 AWMM
• 9/1408 AWMM
• 1385 = 4th Ctgn Rough Riders; 9/1408 = WWI
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Ira tangata

• Male AWMM
• Male
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Pono

Presbyterian

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Whānautanga mai

1881 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

1881

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Wāhi Whānau

Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of David Small BRUCE & Isabella nee' CARNEGIE

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Dannevirke, New Zealand AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

post S A War = Shearer
post WWI = Farmer

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Uri kiritahi

D.S. Bruce, sen. (father), Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1904 married Edith Mariane Jane Fleming
  Divorced 1911 - has 3 daughters
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 16 August 2015 - Research

Pakanga

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

SA War: Cape Colony, Transvaal & Rhodesia; WWI: Egyptian & E F

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• 1st NZEF
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 16 August 2015 - Military Record
• NZ Mounted Rifles
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Nama Hōia

• 1385 AWMM
• 9/1408 AWMM
• 1385 = 4th Ctgn Rough Riders; 9/1408 = WWI
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Military Record

Urunga ki te ope taua

• 1900-1901 & 1915-1918
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• 4th Contingent & Wellington Mounted Rifles
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Mētara me ngā Tohu

1901 SA War Medal with clasps

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Whakangungu ope taua

East Coast Mounted Rifles

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Te urunga

• WW1
• 14 March 1900 at Wellington
  23 August 1915 at Trentham
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

SA war = 21 yrs 2 mths (actually 19yrs old); WWI = 34 yrs

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

pre S A War = Waggon Driver
Pre WWI = Shearer

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo AWMM Trooper AWMM Otago Mounted Rifles AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM
• 31 March 1900 on the troopship 'Gymeric'
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 16 August 2015 - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/soldier/d-s-bruce

Tuhinga hauora

SA War: suffered from Fever & hospitalised in SA before being invalided back to NZ

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Te tūnga whakamutunga

SA War - Private
WWI - Lance Corporal

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Father was named David Small Bruce. AWMM

Rā i mate ai

16 June 1956

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Pakeke i te matenga

75 yrs

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Wāhi Mate

Gisborne, NZ

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Tuhipoka mō te matenga

• Informant of death was Mrs N Zibich of Carterton (daughter)
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 16 August 2015 - Military record
• 1st NZEF, 9/1408 L/Cpl D S BRUCE, Wellington Mtd Rifles, died 16 June 1956 aged 75 years.
  Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 June 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Urupā

Taruheru Cemetery AWMM

Ingoa o te urupā

Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne

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Tohutoro kōhatu urupā

Block: RSA; Plot: 293; Warrant # 8073

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Gisborne's S A Boer War Memorial

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20518929
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 88
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.