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William MacLeish Durant

1887-1916

Portrait of William MacLeish Durant

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Lieutenant

Serial

4/1223

About

Born

28 August 1887
Work

Occupation

Mining Engineer
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

J. R. Durant

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 29

14 September 1916

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5568 24/0135492, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5537 59/0036345, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

Photograph

Courtesy of Durant family.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William MacLeish Durant (1887-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/231

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