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Rangi Parerimu Koopu-Saxby

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  • Service number
    WWII 817435 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Pare Marsden AWMM
    • Pare Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Marsden AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Koopu Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Koopu Marsden AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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During her time as a nurse in WWII. Her 80th birthday.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rangi Parerimu AWMM
  • Surname
    Koopu-Saxby AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Pare Marsden AWMM
    • Pare Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Marsden AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Koopu Saxby AWMM
    • Rangi Parerimu Koopu Marsden AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 817435 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    16 November 1916 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Pre 1943 AWMM Public Hospital, Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mr R. Saxby (father), Waikura, Hicks Bay, East Coast, 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
    1940 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown 2NZEF Nom. Roll 12, p.171 Nurse 2NZEF Nom. Roll 12, p.171
    Napier, Hawkes Bay 2NZEF Nom. Roll 12, p.171
  • 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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  • Wife of George Tuoro Marsden (62744)

    Niece of Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Saxby (13/2150) AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    17 May 2011 AWMM
    Age 94 AWMM
    Rawene, Northland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 May 2011 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman. AWMM
      Soutar, M. (2008) p.365 (photo) 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
      WW2 12: WW2 171 AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
      Kendall & Corbett (1990) p.162 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 May 2011 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. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.171 AWMM

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14 April 2018TeiaBrisbane, AustraliaDirect descendant

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