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Cenotaph record

Collis Eric Sharp

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Collis Eric AWMM
  • Surname
    Sharp AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWII NZ405329 AWMM
    • WWII 405329 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 October 1919 RNZAF Embarkation Roll (R17845762) Dunedin, Otago RNZAF Embarkation Roll (R17845762)
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Christchurch AWMM
  • 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
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2 POW - Changi Camp, Changi, Singapore Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Garoet, Garoet, Java Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Bandoeng, Bandoeng, Java Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Java A, Java Chris Brooks POW research
      20 April 1943 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Batavia, Batavia, Jakarta, Indonesia Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Wakayama No. 29, Wakayama, Japan Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Osaka 4B-Ikuno, Japan Chris Brooks POW research
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number
    2093 AWMM

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Wounds Diseases Etc., WWII AWMM
    Moderate burns 2 March 1942 Hospitalised Alexandra Military Hospital where captured. AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

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  • Death
    20 June 1998 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    • Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II. AWMM
    • List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - Embarkation Lists, November 1940 - July 1942. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845762). AWMM

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