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Eric Snow McPhail

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Eric Snow AWMM
  • Surname
    McPhail AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 11846 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 December 1899 Cotter Trust Invercargill, Southland Cotter Trust
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  • Next of kin on embarkation
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Service

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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

Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Director of Naval Medical Services, 1940s; officer in charge, Naval Hospital, Auckland.

    Attended Queens Park School, Wanganui, Auckland Grammar School, and the University of Otago. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    25 November 1986 Cotter Trust
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
    86 years Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2022 - Auckland Cemeteries Records
  • Place of death
    Northshore, Auckland Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2022 - Auckland Cemeteries Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    North Shore Memorial Park Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2022 - Auckland Cemeteries Records
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Sources

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    • New Zealand, World War II Appointments, Promotions, Transfers and Resignations, 1939–1945. [Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette.] CD-ROM. Ravensbourne, Dunedin, New Zealand: Colonial CD Books, n.d. AWMM
    • Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12 AWMM

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23 June 2022Lorraine MonaGisborneResearcher

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