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Personal data

  • Dunedin
  • New Zealand
  • 1 Russell Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Son of James Sinclair, of Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Line operator

Military service

  • Dunedin, 18 August 1914
  • 2/363
  • Gunner
  • not known not known New Zealand Field Artillery
  • New Zealand Division
  • N.Z.E.F.
  • EMBARKATION: 16 October 1914, Wellington
    Embarked for France 6 April 1916; by 1918 he had transferred from a headquarters position as a trumpeter to serving as a gunner.

Death

  • 9 January 1918, 'one unlucky shot on the night of the 9th January penetrating a dug-out in the 3rd Battery and killing all five occupants';
  • Died of shell wounds in chest in n°2 Can CCS, dead on admission;
  • 23
  • XXVI - C - 8

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