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Lionel Sharpe

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Lionel Sharpe 1920 - 1978

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Lionel AWMM
  • Surname
    Sharpe AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 29454 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Pre 1940-1941 AWMM 44 Clevedon Rd., Otahuhu AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs. M. Sharpe, 44 Clevedon Rd., Otahuhu, Auckland (mother) AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1940-1941 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 29454 AWMM
  • Military service
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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1940-1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.428 Shop assistant/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.428
    2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.428
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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Biographical information

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Death

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  • Was badly wounded in the Western Desert in 1941, just prior to El-Alamein.
    Took the place of a comrade who had been shot while helping to unload a munitions truck, under fire.
    A mortar hit the truck and Lionel woke up under a ground sheet, among bodies to be buried.
    The next day, the area he was in was captured by the Axis. Not being able to move, he was left behind.
    His left hand was very badly swollen and an Italian soldier took a liking to Lionel's Ruby ring. The soldier wanting to cut the finger off in order to get the ring. Fortunately, a German officer stopped him. The area was re-taken by allied troops the next day and he was evacuated.
    Upon arrival in Wellington, New Zealand - Lionel was on of only 10 walking wounded to disembark on Aotea Quay and directly transferred to the Casualty Clearing Station - directly across the road.
    Part of the foundations are still there.

    Rejecting
    Public - Peter James - Child - 16 March 2021
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    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.428 AWMM

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16 March 2021Peter JamesManakau, Otaki. New ZealandChild

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