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Duncan Keir Burges

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Duncan Keir AWMM
  • Surname
    Burges AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI MB1936 AWMM
    • WWI 1936 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 April 1896 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mrs Grace Burges (mother), 2M Featherstone Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 6 December 1916 AWMM
    Age 20 AWMM
    Engineering Apprentice/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Promoted to Chief Motor Mechanic 1 November 1917

    Reported as serving with this ML September 1918 at Milford Haven - Palmer Recruit AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    24 May 1971 Cemetery Records
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Kelvin Grove Cemetery Palmerston North New Zealand AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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12 June 2021KeithLondonResearcher

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