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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Dunedin
• Land New Zealand
• Last residence 1 Russell Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Family Son of James Sinclair, of Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Profession Line operator

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Dunedin, 18 August 1914
• Service number 2/363
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit not known not known New Zealand Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded 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';
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in chest in n°2 Can CCS, dead on admission;
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - C - 8

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