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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

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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