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Lyall Trevor Wiig

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Lyall Trevor AWMM
  • Surname
    Wiig AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
  • Gender
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 21 Enfield Road, Napier AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mr E.G. Wiig (father), 21 Enfield Road, Napier AWMM
  • 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 Plumber/Civilian Ballot Lists
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Squadron Leader Whitehead, Flight Sergeant Scriven, and Flight Sergeant Ford were all involved in saving Flight Sergeant Lyall Trevor Wiig of 16 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, when his corsair ran off the runway, across a ditch and ended up 30 yards from the runway over a steep bank. They were able free the Pilot, lifting him out of danger. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    24 March 1973 Cemetery Records
    Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Cemetery Records
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  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
    Cremated at Hawke s Bay Crematorium Hastings Cemetery Hastings AWMM
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Sources

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  • External links
    'Brave Rescue' Evening Post, 8 October 1945
    https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19451008.2.108
    Further Reference
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    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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