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Gilda St Claire Bezar

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    • Gilda St Claire AWMM
    • Gilda St Clair Public - Christine - Other relative - 17 March 2017 - Family papers
  • Surname
    • Bezar AWMM
    • Bezar Public - Christine - Other relative - 17 March 2017 - Family papers
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWII W1494 AWMM
    • WWII 73882 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    30 July 1915 Hanson Dunedin, Otago Hanson
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
    Women's Auxilliary 2 (WA2)/Military AWMM
  • Enlistment
    WW2 30 June 1941 Hanson Wigram, Christchurch Hanson
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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

Medical history

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Youngest daughter of Charles Bezar and Molly Hoskins.

    Received the MBE in 1968 for services to WAAF and WRNZAF. She served with the WAAF from 1941 to 1945 and with WRNZAF from 1949 to 1970. She was the Director, WRNZAF from 1963 to 1970. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    16 September 2004 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, September 2004 AWMM
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Sources

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    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

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17 March 2017ChristineSpringston, New ZealandOther relative

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