Alistair Gordon Davidson

Lance Corporal · NZ #13721 · MID

What this roll records

The prefix NZ has been added to his service number, on the authority of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph record already linked on this card — the Museum holds him as a New Zealand service person. The digits are unchanged. This roll formerly left the number unmarked, which made it look like a British number to anyone reading the field rather than the card.

Cenotaph-verified 27 Jul 2026 (record link added).

Died 8 September 2000, aged 82. Buried at Greenpark RSA Cemetery, Dunedin (Block 4A, Plot 28). Civilian occupation truck driver. AWMM records the forename spelling as “Alastair” (held here as Alistair). Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Checked (2026): The London Gazette holds nothing under either the name or the service number 13721. Recorded so the search is not repeated.

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Where this comes from

• Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 3 (Embarkations 1 Jul 1940–31 Mar 1941), p.114; No. 5, p.55. Unit history: Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Also cited: Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020); B-Force 8th Infantry Brigade Group Embarkation Roll, Archives NZ AAYS 8638 AD1/1421 (R22440171).
• Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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