David George Dobson

Private · NZ #406306 · R1 Patrol

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.

Confirmed.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, LRDG — R1 Patrol at disbandment, 10 December 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix IV, New Zealand (A) Squadron Disbandment Roll, 10 December 1943).

Embarkation detail from his Cenotaph record: he embarked as Private, Infantry Reinforcements, 2NZEF Nominal Roll 9 p. 110. This agrees with the rank held on this card. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record 154257.

Cenotaph record linked. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

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