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David Charles Pottinger

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    David Charles AWMM
  • Surname
    Pottinger AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 31624 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Orkney, Orkney Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 58 Don St., Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs Isabel Pottinger (wife), 58 Don St., Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Married/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Not registered as a doctor in New Zealand until 1932. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    18 January 1961 AWMM
    Age 76 AWMM
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  • Age at death
  • Place of death
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  • Cemetery
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
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Sources

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  • External links
    Lives of the First World War
    https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3565619
    Sources Used
  • References
    • Wright-St Clair, R. (2013). Historia nunc vivat medical practitioners in New Zealand, 1840 to 1930. Christchurch, N.Z.: Cotter Medical History Trust. AWMM
    • Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.383 AWMM
    • New Zealand Medical Journal AWMM
      New Zealand Medical Journal 1962; 61: p368 AWMM

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