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Cenotaph record

Poai Kuaha Apihai

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Poai Kuaha AWMM
  • Surname
    Apihai AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    14248 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    16 February 1928 Operation Grapple (2021)
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  • Post war occupation
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Service

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  • War
    Regular Military Service AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Navy AWMM
  • Service number
    14248 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
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  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served with rank of LME in Operation Grapple on HMNZS Rotoiti from 28.5.1957 to 21.9.1957. Operation Grapple research by Arthur Venus and Gerry Wright (2021). AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    1989 BDM 1989/54526
    Age 61 AWMM
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Sources

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    • This record was created from Operation Grapple research by Arthur Venus and Gerry Wright and kindly provided by Gerry Wright (2021). AWMM
    • Wright, G. C. (2007). We were there : Operation Grapple : the story of New Zealand's involvement in the British nuclear weapons tests at Christmas Island 1957-58. [Auckland, N.Z : Gerry Wright] AWMM

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