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Mary Lucretia Hancock

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  • Service number
    WWI 22/473 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Mary Lucietia AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Nominal Roll Vol 4 (Roll 77), Page: 7 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 4 (Roll 77), Page: 7 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mary Lucretia AWMM
  • Surname
    Hancock AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Mary Lucietia AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/473 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 October 1882 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 19 January 1918 AWMM Plunket nurse, Masterton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Nurse Beatrice Hancock (sister), St Matthew's Hostel, Masterton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 18 February 1918 AWMM Single AWMM

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
    WW1 19 January 1918 AWMM Nurse AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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  • POW serial number

Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Martha and John Henry Hancock.

    Brother, Henry Richard Hancock (17/77) and sister Mary Lucretia Hancock (22/473) served in WW1.

    Name incorrectly spelled as Mary Lucietia on the Nominal Roll AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    19 May 1962 AWMM
    Age 79 AWMM
    Dunedin, Otago AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Andersons Bay Cemetery, Tomahawk Road, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM Block 27. Plot 29. AWMM
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Memorials

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      77: 7 AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett. AWMM
    • McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb. AWMM

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