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Cenotaph record

Aubrey Albert Donald Bills

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Aubrey Albert Donald AWMM
  • Surname
    Bills AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Aub AWMM
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 November 1921 Death Notice
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 45 Wilkinson St., Liberton, Dunedin AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Sales representative/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

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
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Storeman/Civilian Ballot List
  • 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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  • Served again in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1949-1953. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    9 December 2020 Death Notice
    Age 99 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 11 December 2020 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Rosie Manins, 'Pilot haunted by memories of mountain crash', Otago Daily Times, 11 June 2013
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/pilot-haunted-memories-mountain-crash
    Further Reference
  • 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

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