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Cenotaph record

Sidney Charles Drinkrow

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Sidney Charles AWMM
  • Surname
    Drinkrow AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Sid AWMM
  • Service number
    NZ4311399 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Pacific Theatre of War AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Air Force AWMM
  • Service number
    NZ4311399 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Lee; father of Lyndsey, Neil, Philip, Denis, Anne

    Member of the Pan Expedition

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice. Pan Expedition. At the request of the United States Navy, the New Zealand Naval Board sent a group of communications specialists to Pitcairn Island in December 1943.The group, known as the Pan Expedition, established a special radio station on the Island to receive and transmit important signals to allied ships in the Eastern Pacific area. The station was kept in operation by the New Zealand Army until October 1945. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    12 October 2010 AWMM
    Age 95 AWMM
    Hastings, Hawkes Bay AWMM
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  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 13 October 2010 AWMM
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Memorials

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