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Gordon Keith Thorburn (1898 - 1918)

Gordon Keith Thorburn
Born in New Zealandmap
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Died at about age 20 in Somme, Picardie, Francemap
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Gordon Thorburn is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Biography

Birth Registration: 1898. Third Quarter (July--September) 1898, Waihi, Auckland District, New Zealand. Registration Reference 1898/16766.

Death Registration: 1918. Age at Time of Death 19 Years. Registration Reference 1918/56530.


Gordon Keith Thorburn (Service number 38459) served in the Army during World War I, He wasa Private in the Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion . He gave his next of kin as A. Thorburn (father), Great South Road, Ellerslie, Auckland, He embarked 16 Feb 1917 aboard HMNZT 76 the vessel Aparima , arriving 2 May 1917into Plymouth, Devon with the 22nd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force . He was Killed in Action, 30 March 1918 at the Somme, Northern France . His name appears on the Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, at Grevillers British Cemetery, in Pas-de-Calais, France and on the Edendale Primary School War Memorial, in , Sandringham Road, Auckland, [1]

At the Going down of the Sun, and in the Morning, we will Remember Them.

Sources

  1. Online Ceontaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
  • www.cwgc.org/




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