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Cenotaph record

Hilda MacPherson

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  • Service number
    WWII W3417 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Hilda Ashford AWMM
    • Hilda McKenzie AWMM
    • Hilda McPherson AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Air Force AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Hilda AWMM
  • Surname
    MacPherson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Hilda Ashford AWMM
    • Hilda McKenzie AWMM
    • Hilda McPherson AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII W3417 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    4 December 1919 Births, Deaths and Marriages
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
    Women's Auxilliary 2 (WA2)/Military Errol Martyn WAAF Research
  • Enlistment
    WW2 8 June 1942 Errol Martyn WAAF Research
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

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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  • Daughter of Donald and Jean Hamilton McPherson, married Harold Frederick Ashford in April 1944, they had six children, Harold passed away in 1968 and Hilda remarried Charles Travers McKenzie. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    8 July 2001 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Pokeno Cemetery Fraser Road Pokeno New Zealand AWMM BLOCK ASHES. ROW B. Plot 15 AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    'Marriages' New Zealand Herald, 26 May 1944
    https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19440526.2.2.3
    Further Reference
  • References
    • This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Errol Martyn (2020) AWMM
    • Strengths, WAAF [Women's Auxiliary Air Force], Returns - December 1942 - February 1950. Archives New Zealand (R21072930) AWMM

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