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Cenotaph record

James Cope

  • Service number
    New Zealand Wars 1799 AWMM
  • Also known as
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    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    New Zealand Wars AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    James AWMM
  • Surname
    Cope AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    New Zealand Wars 1799 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1835 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
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  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
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Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    New Zealand Wars AWMM
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  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
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    New Zealand Wars 1799 AWMM
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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
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  • Enlistment
    New Zealand Wars 11 July 1842 AWMM Shoemaker AWMM
    Westminster, London AWMM
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Arrived at Norfolk Island in December 1844 on the 'Blundell'. Arrived at Wellington February 1846. Bithplace listed as 'St. Chadd', though this may be a spelling error. Promoted to Corporal on 1 Janauary 1850, but reduced to Private after Military Offence on 6 July 1850. Public source. AWMM

Death

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Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    Hughes, H & Hughes, L. (1998). Discharged in New Zealand: Soldiers of the Imperial Foot Regiments who took their discharge in New Zealand 1840-1870. The New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Auckland : New Zealand. AWMM
    p.49 AWMM

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