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Lakey Waihapara Tapara Atatu

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Lay a poppy
profile photo taken October 1969 prior to deployment to Vietnam

Pte LWT Atatu W3 RNZIR

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Lakey Waihapara Tapara AWMM
  • Surname
    Atatu AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    L. W. T. Atatu AWMM
  • Service number
    Vietnam 543240 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    5 February 1944 AWMM
  • 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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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • 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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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • W3 Company, RNZIR website has portrait.

    6RAR history shows posted to Spt Coy. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    1 April 2021 AWMM
    Age 77 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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  • External links
  • References
    • Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co. AWMM
    • Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books. AWMM
    • This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. AWMM
    • Contact (Magazine of the New Zealand Ex-Vietnam Services Association) AWMM

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