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Margaret Isabel Nichol

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Headstone of Ch Str Margaret Isabel PARATA 964. Puketeraki Cemetery, Block 1, Plot 1. Image kindly provided by Allan Steel CC-BY 4.0.

Headstone of Ch Str Margaret Isabel PARATA 964. Puketeraki Cemetery, Block 1, Plot 1. Image kindly p …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Margaret Isabel AWMM
  • Surname
    Nichol AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Margaret Isabel Parata AWMM
    • Margaret Isabel Parata AWMM
    • Margaret Isabel Parata AWMM
    • Nichol AWMM
  • Service number
    964 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    18 June 1915 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 'Taurima', Rural Delivery, Outram, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr W.I. Nichol (father), 'Taurima', Rural Delivery, Outram, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1938 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    London, England 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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  • Wife of Brigadier Hoani Haereroa Parata, CBE, DSO (7120)

    Mother of Richard, Anthony, Penelope, Nicholas

    Appointed Sister 6 August 1940

    Appointed Charge Sister 1 October 1944 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    • 15 February 2010 AWMM
      Age 94 AWMM
      Dunedin, Otago AWMM
    • 15 February 2010 Allan Steel Cemetery Project
      Age 94 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Puketeraki Cemetery AWMM Block 1, Plot 1 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 16 February 2010 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    New Zealand Military Nursing: New Zealand Army Nursing Service - Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.
    http://web.archive.org/web/20220126041404/https://www.nzans.org/index.htm
    Further Reference
  • 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. (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 351 AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
      Kendall, S. & Corbett, D. p.160 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 16 February 2010 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. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.91 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.351 AWMM
    • This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020) AWMM

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