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Cenotaph record

Luke Adams

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Luke AWMM
  • Surname
    Adams AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Abraham Luke AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII NZ4213736 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 August 1911 BDM 1994/42612
  • 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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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1942 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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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Born Abraham Luke, but Births, Deaths, and Marriages records him as Luke Adams at death, and this has been reflected in the record as the name he preferred. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    10 May 1994 BDM 1994/42612
    Age 82 AWMM
    Tauranga, Bay of Plenty BDM 1994/42612
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Kauae Cemetery, Ngongotaha, Rotorua AWMM Block 21, Secton D, Plot 29 AWMM
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  • Obituary
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  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    Information kindly provided by public contributor AWMM

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