David was born in 1908. He was the son of David Arbuthnott and Mary Robertson Bone.
At the age of about 2 he emigrated from Scotland to New Zealand with his parents and siblings.
He married Daphne Rose Morgan (daughter of William Morgan and Veronica Stevens) on 1 September 1928 in Wellington.
They had two children. Sadly their son David died at the age of 11. (His wife Daphne died in 1977.)
David married, secondly, Eileen Edna White who had previously been married to Les Kennedy.
He died in 2005 at the age of 97.
Ashes Burial, Old Cemetery, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Plot: 26, Row: 11, Cemetery block: C[1][2]
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