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• Name GUBBINS
• Initials LR
• First name LAUNCELOT RUSSELL
• Place of birth Lima
• Country Peru
• Last residence Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands
• Family Son of John Russell Gubbins and Mary Margaret Gubbins (nee Dickson), of 22, Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood, London, England
• Education Rugby School
• Profession Planter
• Extra info Enlisted under the name James Lance

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 12 September 1914
• Service number 11/243
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Medals M M
• 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 Embarked for Egypt 16 October 1914, Wellington; landed at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, April 1915, was wounded at Achi Baba in July, invalided to Malta, and returned to Gallipoli in September, where he remained until the evacuation; to France May 1917; commissioned Second Lieutenant March 1918

Death

• Wounded Mount Scherpenberg
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 23 April 1918
• Died at the age of 36
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - GG - 8

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