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Winifred Ellen Waite

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Nominal Roll Vol 4 (Roll 77), Page: 6 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Winifred Ellen AWMM
  • Surname
    Waite AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Spencer AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/466 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1890 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
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  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Henry Waite (father), Waitangi, Tarata, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/466 AWMM
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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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    WW1 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
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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

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  • Daughter of Ellen Maria Waite and Henry Waite. AWMM

Death

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    1984 AWMM
    Age 94 AWMM
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  • Winifered Ellen Spencer died in 1984, aged 94 years. Was a staff Nursing Sister, Army in Palestine and Egypt in WW1. W.E. Spencer is buried @ Purewa Cemetery, alongside her husband, Harrison Nutter Spencer, also a soldier in Palestine. Met her husband in Apia, Samoa in 19820, after the annexation of that country from Germany. Was a prominent person in the NZ RSA for 70 years and nursed American soldiers at Ellerlelie Greenlane in WW2, upon donning her nursing uniform again. Her WW1 nursing uniform (complete with all its epaulettes), is preserved in a small Museum attached to New Plymouth Hospital where she trained. Their only son (my Father, is having his 90th Birthday @ Taupo on 28th June (this month), attended by his four siblings from his first marriage ( Jeremy (myself), Sue, Sarah and Nigel. We are coming from as far afield as Western Australia, Canberra and Wellington. Dad Dr John
    Public - Jeremy Robert Havelock - Other Relative - 16 June 2015
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16 June 2015Jeremy Robert HavelockCanberra, ACT 2615, AustraliaOther Relative

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