Colin Robert DUNCAN

DUNCAN, Colin Robert

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: Royal Field Artillery
Born: Glenelg, SA, 29 October 1892
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: St. Peter's College
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Captain, Royal Field Artillery

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John James DUNCAN and Jean Gordon nee GRANT

The following alterations have been made in the personal staff of His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson):—Capt, Colin Robert Duncan, Royal Field Artillery is appointed aide-de-camp (October 1918)

Another A.D.C. at Government House is Captain Colin Robert Duncan, who has lived a good deal of his life in South Australia. He belongs to the Royal Field Artillery, and served in France for a year with the 12th Division and 1st Cavalry Division until badly gassed on the Somme in July, 1916. His mother, Lady Duncan, is a widow, and went to England with her daughters soon after the outbreak of war. They have been doing war work there, and
are still in London. His father, Sir James Duncan, was well known in the political world in South Australia.

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