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Elizabeth Monckton

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From the order of service for her funeral at Elliotts Rosebank Chapel, Tauranga, 11 July 2009

Elizabeth as a young woman

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Elizabeth AWMM
  • Surname
    Monckton AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    824347 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    3 October 1914 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
    03 October 1914 Public - Elizabeth Anne Monckton - Other relative - 27 April 2020 - Funeral order of service
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 18 Hammond Street, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs M. Monckton (mother), 18 Hammond Street, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
    • She never married - " All the men I might have, were killed in WWII" Public - Elizabeth Anne Monckton - Other relative - 27 April 2020 - Personal conversations with her, in her later years

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    824347 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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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 Masseuse/Civilian 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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    • Memorial service held at Wainaro Anglican Church, Tauranga AWMM
    • Funeral service at Elliotts Rosebank Chapel, Tauranga on 11 July 2009
      Memorial service at Waingaro, Waikato. Public - Elizabeth Anne Monckton - Other relative - 27 April 2020 - Order of service for her funeral

Death

About death

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  • Death
    5 July 2009 AWMM
    Age 94 AWMM
    Te Puke, Bay of Plenty 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, 8 July 2009 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

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
    • The New Zealand Herald 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
      WW2 14: WW2 69 AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
      Kendall, S. & Corbett, D. (1990) p. 160 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 8 July 2009 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.69 AWMM

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27 April 2020Elizabeth Anne Monckton Tauranga, New ZealandOther relative

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