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Eric Oswald Hercus

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Eric Oswald AWMM
  • Surname
    Hercus AWMM
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  • Gender
    Male AWMM
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Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    23 June 1891 AWMM Dunedin, Otago AWMM
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  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Tritinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom AWMM
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  • Relationship status
    Single/WWI AWMM
    Married Florence Hercus 29 Jan 1924, Christchurch AWMM

Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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    WW1 21 September 1916 AWMM
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Prisoner of war

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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Educated at Otago Boys' High School and the Universities of Otago and Melbourne. Son of George Robertson and Elizabeth Hercus (nee Elder). During the First World War he was appointed as a radiography instructor in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Malta before being commissioned in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He taught at the University of Melbourne in the interwar years and was a member of the Optical Munitions Panel (1940-1945) in the Second World War. Source: R. W. Home, Hercus, 'Eric Oswald (1891–1962)', Australian Dictionary of Biography. AWMM
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Death

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    30 June 1962 AWMM
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