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]
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