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Roy Giles

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Roy AWMM
  • Surname
    Giles AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 67842 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Seventh Day Adventist, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 August 1916 Births, Deaths and Marriages
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Te Kauwhata Rural Delivery AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs A M Giles, Te Kauwhata Rural Delivery (m) AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 67842 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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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  • Appealed service on conscientious grounds, as he was a Seventh Day Adventist, he was willing to do non-combatant services. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    8 August 1988 AWMM
    Age 72 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Maunu Cemetery Cemetery Road off State Highway 14 Whangarei Northland New Zealand AWMM RSA Block Twenty One A Plot 1043 AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • To my Dearest Papa - I miss you forever xxxx Thankyou for your life xxxx Forever missed
    Public - Valmai - Direct descendant - 19 May 2021
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Sources

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  • References
    Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
    6, p. 15 AWMM

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19 May 2021ValmaiNewcastleDirect descendant

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