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Ian Cyril Hayward

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Photograph of Ian Cyril Hayward in uniform. Image kindly provided by Palmerston North Boys High School (October 2022).

Photograph of Ian Cyril Hayward in uniform. Image kindly provided by Palmerston North Boys High Scho …

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ian Cyril AWMM
  • Surname
    Hayward AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Ian Cyril Bell AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 36942 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1919 BDM 1919/22190
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Pre 3 October 1940 AWMM 26 Aurora Tce, Wellington AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs Minnie Frances Hayward (mother), 295 Christchurch St, Palmerston North AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1940-1941 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 3 October 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.206 Sharebroker's clerk 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.206
    2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.206
  • 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
    Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Cyril George and Minnie Frances Hayward of Palmerston North.

    The Fort Mumford was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I 27 (Commanded by Fukumura) in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles north west of Ceylon in position 10 north 71 east whitely on maiden voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia for Lyttelton, New Zealand and then on to Suez and Alexandria via Colombo and Aden. The ship carried 6649 tons of military stores. The Master, Captain John H R Smith, OBE, and crew of 45 and 4 gunners, were lost. The sole survivor, Gunner Horace Bailey, was rescued by an Arab Dhow and landed at Mikindani, Tanganyika.

    Served in the Merchant Navy under the surname Bell. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    20 March 1943 AWMM
    Age 23 AWMM
    Indian Ocean AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed on Active Service AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
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Memorials

Memorial

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    • Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London, England AWMM
    • Sydney Memorial, New South Wales, Australia AWMM

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.206 AWMM
    • Lloyd's war losses : the Second World War. (1989-). (Vols. 1-2). London, England: Lloyd's of London Press. AWMM
    • Tennent, A. (2001). British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-45. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing. AWMM
    • Rohwer, J. (1999). Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two. London, England: Greenhill Books. AWMM
    • Sharpe, P. (1998). U-boat fact file, 1935-1945. Earl Shilton, England: Midland Publishing. AWMM
    • Jones, G. P. (1975). Under three flags : the story of Nordmark and the armed supply-ships of the German navy. London, England: Corgi. AWMM
    • Lord, W. (1982). The miracle of Dunkirk. London, England: Allen Lane. AWMM
    • Plummer, R. (1990). The ships that saved an army : a comprehensive record of the 1,300 "little ships" of Dunkirk. Northamptonshire, England: P. Stephens. AWMM
    • British merchant vessels lost or damaged by enemy action during Second World War, 3rd September 1939 to 2nd September 1945 AWMM
    • Hague, A. (2000). The allied convoy system, 1939-1945 : its organization, defence and operation. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell. AWMM
    • New Zealand Deaths Register - Merchant Navy, Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R160611) AWMM
    • Atkinson, N. (2005). Hell or high water : New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war. HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. AWMM

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