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Cenotaph record

Audrey Elizabeth Hobson

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  • Service number
    814822 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Simmons AWMM
    • Audrey Elizabeth Beale Hobson AWMM
    • Audrey Elizabeth Beale Simmonds AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Wedding party. 2 April 1945 (from left to right): Major A B Adams - Medical Officer; Sister Audrey Hobson; Major J L Wright groom and Sister Isabelle A. Henderson bride; Major A W H Borrie M.C. - Medical Officer; Sister Mary Howden - This image may be subject to copyright

Wedding party. 2 April 1945 (from left to right): Major A B Adams - Medical Officer; Sister Audrey H …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Audrey Elizabeth AWMM
  • Surname
    Hobson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Simmons AWMM
    • Audrey Elizabeth Beale Hobson AWMM
    • Audrey Elizabeth Beale Simmonds AWMM
  • Service number
    814822 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    18 November 1908 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr W. Hobson (father), Takapau, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    814822 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1935 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

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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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

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  • Death
    21 August 1994 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • 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. 11 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1943 to 30th June, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.61 AWMM

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