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Mavis Honora Dreaver

  • Service number
    810642 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Kennedy AWMM
    • Mavis Honora Kennedy AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Army portrait of Sister Mavis Dreaver c 1944/45

Sister Mavis Kennedy (nee Dreaver)

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mavis Honora AWMM
  • Surname
    Dreaver AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Kennedy AWMM
    • Mavis Honora Kennedy AWMM
  • Service number
    810642 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    13 March 1914 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
    Auckland Public - Peter Douglas - Child - 21 June 2018 - Family papers
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 17 Rotomahana Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr A.J. Dreaver (brother), 17 Rotomahana Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
    • Married Lt Col Douglas Peter Kennedy, in Bari Italy, on 30 January 1946 Public - Peter Douglas - Child - 21 June 2018 - Official wedding invitation of Principal Matron NZ General Hospital, Bari Italy

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    810642 AWMM
  • Military service
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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1939 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    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

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • 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
      WW2 14: WW2 27 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
    • 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.27 AWMM

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