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29/12/2020
29/12/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 11th December 1943: Roll of Honour
29/12/2020 DUFF – December 1941, killed in action near Libya. Walter T Duff, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, loved eldest son of the late W J Duff, and of Mrs Duff, Hanover Square, Coagh. ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him.’
18/07/2020 DUFF – Treasured memories of Water T Duff, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, killed in action in the Middle East, eldest beloved son of the late William J Duff and of Mrs Duff, Hanover Square, Coagh, Cookstown. ‘Until the day breaks.’
18/07/2020
18/07/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 16th December 1944: Roll of Honour
25/04/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 12th December 1942:
25/04/2020 DUFF – 11th December 1941, killed in action in the Middle East, Private Walter T Duff, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, beloved eldest son of the late W J Duff, and of Mrs Duff, Hanover Square, Coagh, County Tyrone, ‘Until the day break And the shadows flee away.’
25/04/2020
06/01/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 17th January 1942: Roll of Honour
06/01/2020 DUFF – December 1941, killed in action in the Middle East, Private Walter C Duff, second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest and dearly loved son of Mrs S J Duff and the late W J Duff, The Square, Coagh, and beloved husband of Ellen Duff. Deeply regretted.
06/01/2020
24/10/2018 Walter Duff emigrated to New Zealand.
24/10/2018
24/10/2018 Walter Thomas Duff was the eldest son of William James Duff and Sara Jane Duff. William Duff and Sara Jane Davison were married on 6th February 1900 in the district of Magherafelt.
24/10/2018 Walter Thomas Duff was born on 16th March 1904 in Coagh. He was one of at least five children. All the children were born in Coagh.
24/10/2018 Known family: William James Duff, Sara Jane Duff, Evelyn Martha Duff (born 27th November 1902), Walter Thomas Duff (born 16th March 1904), Dorothy Margaret Muriel Duff (born 22nd June 1906), William Davison Duff (born 5th October 1909), Robert Duff (born 1st December 1913).
24/10/2018 The 1911 census lists Walter as age 7 living with the family at house 15 in Hanover Street, Coagh.
24/10/2018 His father was a mill manager and an Inspector of Fisheries. His mother was a National School Teacher at Coagh National School.
24/10/2018 At some point he married Ella Duff.
24/10/2018 Prior to enlisting he worked as a malt-house hand in Wellington. He was living in the Metropolitan Hotel, Wellington.
24/10/2018 He gave his next of kin as his wife, Mrs E. Duff, whose address was given as: c/o J.E. Davidson, Sutherlands, Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand
24/10/2018 Private Duff served with the New Zealand Infantry in Greece when they withdrew in April 1941. The New Zealand Infantry fought throughout the Western Desert Campaign in the summer and winter of 1941.
24/10/2018 Private Walter Thomas Duff was serving with the 23rd Battalion of the New Zealand Infantry when he was killed in action on 11th December 1941.
24/10/2018 The CWGC record Private Walter Thomas Duff as the son of William James Duff and Sara Jane Duff, of Coagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, He is also record as being the husband of Ella Duff.
24/10/2018 Private Walter Duff has no known grave and is commemorated at Alamein Memorial in Egypt.
25/07/2016
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