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Alice Eileen Newcombe

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  • Service number
    28078 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Tessa Public - Susan Julianne - Other Relative - 15 April 2015 - This was a family nickname, that rolled over to several of her army pals - this was common knowledge in our Newcombe family
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
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Eileen Newcombe

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Identity

About

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  • Title
    Miss Public - Susan Julianne - Other Relative - 15 April 2015 - I am her niece, I used to spend hours with Aunty Eileen, and I know for a fact she never married!
  • Forenames
    Alice Eileen AWMM
  • Surname
    Newcombe AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Tessa Public - Susan Julianne - Other Relative - 15 April 2015 - This was a family nickname, that rolled over to several of her army pals - this was common knowledge in our Newcombe family
  • Service number
    28078 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    4 May 1909 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 27 Mont le Grand Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs E.C. Newcombe (mother), 27 Mont le Grand Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, 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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  • Military training
    1934 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    Ashburton, Canterbury 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

About death

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  • Death
    15 September 1991 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
    82, born 4 May 1909 Public - Alexis - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Birth Certificate
  • Place of death
    Auckland Public - Alexis - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Family papers
  • Cause of death
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
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Memorials

Memorial

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Roll of Honour

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  • Eileen (Tessa), my Aunt and Godmother, served for four and a half years overseas, in Egypt and Italy. She was able to meet up with her two youngest brothers, Eric (my father) and Verne, who were also serving in those theatres. Charge-Sister Newcombe (as she was), was one of six nurses selected from the Auckland District to attend the Victory Parade in London following the end of the war. Nursing friends remembered a vibrant and attractive woman who enjoyed riding horses during her leave.
    Public - Alexis - Other Relative - 25 April 2015
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Sources

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  • 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. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 3: WW2 349 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 16: WW2 97 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. 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. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.97 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.349 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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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
24 April 2019PaulAucklandOther relative
25 April 2015AlexisAuckland, New ZealandOther Relative
15 April 2015Susan JuliannePort Huon, TasmaniaOther Relative

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