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Laura May Collings

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Tui's in Cairo, 1945. Left to Right, Back Row:- Kim May, Audrey Gilbert, Pat Ching, Bobby Beasley, Sally Ralph, Peggy Horn, Pat Henry, Emma Avenal, Melva McIvor, Second Row:- Betty Liggett, June Morgan, May Lawson, Joan Gunn, Mavis Watson, Nancy Geddes, Margaret Mortlock (killed in France), Margaret Knight, Joanna Bartlett, Audrey Jones Front Row:- Joy Haith, Nancy Baldwin, Jessie Anderson, Nan Pickering, Isobel Brock, Mary Martin, Andrea Lawson, Gwen Perry, Laura Collings, Mavis Burns, Joy Powell. Image kindly provided by John Stevenson (April 2021).

Tui's in Cairo, 1945. Left to Right, Back Row:- Kim May, Audrey Gilbert, Pat Ching, Bobby Beasley, S …

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Laura May AWMM
  • Surname
    Collings AWMM
  • Ingoa
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  • Service number
    WWII 822167 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

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  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs M.A. Collings (mother), Wanaka, New Zealand AWMM
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Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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    WW2 Unknown AWMM Factory hand/Civilian AWMM
    Dunedin, Otago AWMM
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Medical history

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Biographical information

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Death

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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
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.21 AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074) AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Middle East - Drafts - Strength Return [and Embarkation Rolls] (1943-1945). Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R22502075). AWMM

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