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Eric Ball

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Eric AWMM
  • Surname
    Ball AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    E. Ball AWMM
  • Service number
    • Vietnam 35339 AWMM
    • Vietnam M35339 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    11 October 1935 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Service

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served in Malaya 1957-1959. Source: S. Carroll, New Zealand Malaya Veterans Association.

    Cremated at Puhinui Crematorium, Papatoetoe.

    Served in the Malay / Thai Border Operations. AWMM

Death

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    27 April 1989 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
    Age 53 AWMM
    Papakura, Auckland AWMM
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  • Cemetery
    • Manukau Memorial Gardens Cemetery & Crematorium (Papatoetoe Cemetery), 357 Puhinui Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland AWMM
    • Papakura Cemetery, Great South Road, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
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Sources

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  • 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
    • Last Post - New Zealand Malaya Veterans Association AWMM
    • 1st Battalion - New Zealand Regiment - Historical Records - General, July 1957-1959, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADRC 17588 2/1/1 (R17928162). AWMM
    • Clamp, B., Clamp, D., & 1st Battalion the New Zealand Regiment (1957-59) Association. (2007). 1st battalion the New Zealand regiment (1957-59) association 50th anniversary: the first of the first. B. Clamp. AWMM
    • This record was partially created from Cemetery research completed by Carol Foster (2021). AWMM

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