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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
To be able to look forward, you must be able to look back
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Final rank:
Second Lieutenant
First name/s
James
Last name
LANCE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
2/746
New Zealand Field Artillery
Also known as
Launcelot Russell GUBBINS (birth name)
James A LANCE (alias on enlistment)
Date of birth
22/03/1884
Place of birth
Lima, Peru, South America
Date of death
23/4/1918
Place of death
Somme, Northern France
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium
Next of kin
Son of John Russell Gubbins and Mary Margaret Gubbins (nee Dickson), of 22, Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood, London, England
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
At enlistment, he was employed as a planter with W.J. Stevenson of Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Killed in action 23/04/1918.
Memorial at St. Luke Churchyard, Formby, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/433158/launcelot-russell-gubbins/
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Further links
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