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Cenotaph record

Moira Gertrude Shore

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  • Service number
    71953 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Moira Williams AWMM
    • Moira Gertrude Wlliams AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Moira Gertrude AWMM
  • Surname
    Shore AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Moira Williams AWMM
    • Moira Gertrude Wlliams AWMM
  • Service number
    71953 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    7 March 1911 WWII WAAC Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 99 Yule St., Lyall Bay, Wellington. AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs G.L. Shore (mother), Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
    Trentham, Upper Hutt 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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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Moira Shore was promoted to Lieutenant 22 December 1942.

    Moira married Ossie Williams after World War II. They had five children, John, Wensley, Peter, Bruce, Jane. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    12 December 2005 AWMM
    Age 95 AWMM
    Masterton, Wairarapa 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, 14 December 2005 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 6 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 14 December 2005 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
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.31 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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