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John Darwin Maling

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    John Darwin AWMM
  • Surname
    Maling AWMM
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  • Gender
    Male AWMM
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Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 February 1915 AWMM Timaru, Canterbury AWMM
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Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
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  • Enlistment
    29 August 1935 AWMM
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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Medical history

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Educated at Christ's College, Christchurch; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; and Staff College, Quetta.

    Married Frida Paget, 1950. Later worked for the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service 1959-1981, and was a voluntary worker with the New Zealand Schizophrenia Fellowship. Source: Obituary, The Telegraph, 6 April 2009. AWMM

Death

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    16 March 2009 AWMM
    Age 94 AWMM
    Waikanae, Wellington Region AWMM
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