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Alastair Gordon Couston

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Alastair Gordon AWMM
  • Surname
    Couston AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 35151 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • WW2 1940-1941 AWMM Tokanui Mental Hospital, Private Bag, Te Awamutu AWMM
    • WW2 1941 AWMM Tokanui Mental Hospital, Private Bag, Te Awamutu AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW2 Mrs. H.O.S. Couston (wife), Tokanui Mental Hospital, Private Bag, Te Awamutu AWMM
    • WW2 Mrs. H.O.S. Couston (wife), Tokanui Mental Hospital, Private Bag, Te Awamutu AWMM
  • 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 1940-1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.102 Medical practitioner 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.102
    Te Awamutu, Waikato 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.102
  • 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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Death

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  • Death
  • 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

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.102 AWMM
    • 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
      p.10 AWMM
    • Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls B-force 8th infantry brigade group [New Zealand Military Forces - "B" Force - Embarkation Roll]. Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1421 (R22440171) AWMM
    • HMNZHS [Her Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship] Maunganui - Staff - Embarkation rolls, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADQZ 18903 WAII4/21/51 (R20934261). AWMM
    • Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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