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Marjorie Katherine Moore

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  • Service number
    820748 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Marjorie Katherine Watson AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Portrait of Marjorie Watson 820748 (2014). © NZIPP Photograph by Lynda Forrest 5174. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Portrait of Marjorie Watson 820748 (2014). © NZIPP Photograph by Lynda Forrest 5174. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 …

Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Marjorie Katherine AWMM
  • Surname
    Moore AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Marjorie Katherine Watson AWMM
  • Service number
    820748 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    7 February 1919 WWII WAAC Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs A. Moore (mother), Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Service number listed as 820742 in WAAC Middle East Drafts (R22502075) AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    12 July 2020 AWMM
    Age 101 AWMM
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  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Obituary
    Timaru Herald, July 15, 2020 "WATSON,Marjorie Katherine (nee Moore):
    WWII. Red Cross Nurse. No 820748. New Caledonia, and Italy. Passed peacefully on Sunday, July 12, 2020. Aged 101 years. Loved wife of the late Ernest, mother of the late Marianne (Mandy), and John. Grandmother of Andre, Marcus, and Justin. Great-grandmother of Talika, Melissa, and Darius-Thorin. A celebration of Marjorie's life will be held at All Saints' Anglican Church, cnr Puketapu and Church Roads, Taradale, Napier on Friday July 17, 2020 at 11.00am, followed by a private cremation. Messages to the 'Chalmers Family', c/o PO Box 7001, Taradale, Napier 4141." AWMM
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Sources

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  • External links
    IN HONOUR: New Zealand’s surviving WWII veterans (Stuff.co.nz). Published 25 April 2020.
    https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2020/in-honour/index.html
    Further Reference
  • 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
    • 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.137 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
    • This record was partially compiled from information provided by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP) Veteran Portrait Project. 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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