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Thomas Harcourt Ambrose Valentine

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Thomas Harcourt Ambrose AWMM
  • Surname
    Valentine AWMM
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    Male AWMM
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Civilian life

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    1865 Pat Clarkson Research Sussex, England Pat Clarkson Research
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    Married/WWI AWMM

Service

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
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Training and Enlistment

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    WW1 Medical practitioner Pat Clarkson Research
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Married to Margaret Ellis McTaggart, 20 April 1890.

    Became Director of MIlitary Hospitals in June 1915 and was attached to the Defence Department from 1918 until 1920. After this he returned to public health and headed the Department of Health until retirement in 1930 as Director General of Health. Source: Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. He was awarded a CBE for his wartime service. AWMM

Death

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    30 August 1945 Wright-St Clair
    Age 80 AWMM
    Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui Wright-St Clair
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Sources

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    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • Wright-St Clair, R. (2013). Historia nunc vivat medical practitioners in New Zealand, 1840 to 1930. Christchurch, N.Z.: Cotter Medical History Trust. AWMM
      p.381 AWMM
    • Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI. AWMM
    • New Zealand Medical Journal AWMM
      1945; 44: 273-74 AWMM
    • The Dictionary of New Zealand biography. 1901-1920 (Vol. 3). (1996). Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press : Department of Internal Affairs. AWMM
      547-48 AWMM

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