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Jonathan Oswald Porritt

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Jonathan Oswald AWMM
  • Surname
    Porritt AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Ossie AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 45575 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Baha'i AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 July 1920 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • WW2 Pre 1942 AWMM 14 Henry St., Avondale, Auckland AWMM
    • WW2 Pre 1942 AWMM 14 Henry St., Avondale, Auckland AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW2 Mrs. L.E. Porritt, 14 Henry St., Avondale, Auckland (m) AWMM
    • WW2 Mrs. L.E. Porritt, 14 Henry St., Avondale, Auckland (m) AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 45575 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • 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
    2006 AWMMDied from Natural Causes, Cause of Death AWMM
    Carmavan Hospital, Lincoln Road Henderson AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Ardent reader of History and very keen on Richard III and the 2 Princes in the Tower. Interested in Health & Yoga in his later years. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    28 April 2006 AWMM
    Henderson, Waitakere City AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died from Natural Causes AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Funeral Home: Henderson Chapel Morrison Funeral Home, Henderson AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 7 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1942 to 31st March, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.114 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.320 AWMM

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