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Cenotaph record

Eric Robert Welsford

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Portrait of Petty Officer Eric Robert Welsford, c.Second World War. Image kindly provided by Jan Payne (April 2020). Image may be subject to copyright restrictions.

Portrait of Petty Officer Eric Robert Welsford, c.Second World War. Image kindly provided by Jan Pay …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Eric Robert AWMM
  • Surname
    Welsford AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII NZ10550 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Protestant, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    22 September 1920 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 107 Park Road, Miramar, Welington AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Engineering manager AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Alfred Henry Welsford AWMM
  • Relationship status
    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
    Operational Administrator (Navy Trade)/Military AWMM
  • Enlistment
    WW2 17 January 1945 AWMM Mechanical engineer/Civilian AWMM
  • 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

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Ashes scattered at sea. Family source. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    21 December 1986 AWMM
    Age 66 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940–1945. [Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette.] CD-ROM. Ravensbourne, Dunedin, New Zealand: Colonial CD Books, n.d. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM

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