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Donald Muir

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Donald AWMM
  • Surname
    Muir AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 8/1808 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    27 September 1890 NZWGT Argyll and Bute, Scotland NZWGT
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Linton Park, Otautau, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    J. Muir (father), Campbelltown, Argyle, Scotland AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 17 April 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 8/1808 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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
    16 October 1917 AWMMDied of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
    Wounded in action (gunshot wound compound fracture thigh, left hand amputated(?)) on 12 October 1917. Admitted to 1 New Zealand Field Ambulance 12 October and transferred to 44 Casualty Clearing Station the same day. Died of wounds at the casualty clearing station on 16 October 1917. AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Previously employed as Ploughman by Tom Norman, Otautau AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    16 October 1917 AWMM
    Belgium, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of wounds AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM V. F. 17. AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
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Memorials

Memorial

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  • Hi, I am researching the men of the Otautau War Memorial, Southland. If you have a photo of Donald Muir that you'd like to share with the Otautau Museum and the Otautau RSA, please contact me. Thanks, Cathy/Otautau Museum
    Public - Cathy - Researcher - 2 March 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • Documents
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 524 AWMM
    • NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations. AWMM
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