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Alexander McGavin was born in 1898, grew up in Duke St, North Dunedin and worked as a clerk. He was, if that redoubtable pillar of journalistic respectability the NZ "Truth" was to be believed, something of a larrikin. Their report of his 1916 court appearance for assault on a Constable can be found here:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTR19161028.2.36?query=alexander%20mcgavin
By 1917 McGavin had been called up for military service, trained and embarked for Europe in September as a Rifleman of the NZ Rifle Brigade.. He didn't last long at the front, being severely wounded and/or gassed in late November.
He died in hospital of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
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