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Joan Gwendoline Woodruff Dickson

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Headstone, Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne. (photo Taylor, Noel 23 March 2009). - Image © Auckland Museum CC BY.

Headstone, Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne. (photo Taylor, Noel 23 March 2009). - Image © Auckland Museu …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Joan Gwendoline Woodruff AWMM
  • Surname
    Dickson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    818249 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 October 1916 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
    NZ Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 March 2023 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197601524/joan-gwendoline_woodruff-dickson
  • Birth notes
    Daughter of John James Woodruff DICKSON & Sarah Jane nee' Goldsmith of Wairoa Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 March 2023 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197601524/joan-gwendoline_woodruff-dickson
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Public Hospital, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Nursing Sister in Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 March 2023 - NZ Archives
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs S.J. Marett (mother), 81 Vigor-Brown Street, Napier, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1940 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    Stratford, Taranaki AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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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  • Medical notes

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    10 July 1968 AWMM
    Age 51 AWMM
    Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM Block RSA Plot 486 AWMM
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  • Obituary
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Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 51 AWMM
    • Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM
      Cemetery register 12078 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
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.51 AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074) AWMM

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09 March 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher

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