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Personal data

• Name HUBBARD
• Initials EB
• First name EDGAR BRUCE
• Place of birth Christchurch
• Country New Zealand
• Last residence Russley Road, Upper Riccarton
• Family Son of Leonard and Margaret Hubbard, of Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand; a brother, Henry Bertram and a sister, Margaret Gwendoline;
• Education Harewood School
• Profession Farmer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Featherston, 23 March 1917
• Service number 47838
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment 1st Coy.
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Arrived in France in September 1917, and in the next month was hospitalised with measles; posted to the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment on 5 January 1918.

Death

• Wounded 16 February, gassed
• Type of wounds Died of wounds (broncho pneumonia) at n°2 Can CCS
• Date of death 12 March 1918
• Died at the age of 31
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - EE - 8

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