Joyce Evelyn Ford
Born 24 Nov 1919 - Died 14 Aug 2005
- Service number
- 820413 AWMM
- Also known as
- Bennett AWMM
- Joyce Evelyn Bennett AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- Sergeant AWMM Women's Auxiliary Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), 6 New Zealand General Hospital, Japan AWMM
- War
About
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- Forenames
- Joyce Evelyn AWMM
- Surname
- Ford AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- Bennett AWMM
- Joyce Evelyn Bennett AWMM
- Service number
- 820413 AWMM
- Gender
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
- Church of England, Christian AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
- 24 Nov 1919 AWMM Orari Bridge AWMM
Orari Bridge, Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM - Date of birth
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- Address before enlistment
- Pre 01 Aug 1942 AWMM Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Mrs L. Ford (mother), Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 01 May 1944 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- Campaign
- Middle East AWMM
- Pacific Theatre of War AWMM
- 1946-1948 AWMM British Commonwealth Occupational Force, Japan AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- 820413 AWMM
- Military service
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW2 Aug 1942 AWMM
Age 22 AWMM
Home Help/Civilian AWMM - Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW2 Vessel was USS Pinkney (APH-2) AWMM Private AWMM Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
- Jayforce Vessel was Chitral AWMM British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Japan AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
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Medical history
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- Other, Unknown Period AWMM
Wore Spectacles AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- Sergeant AWMM
Women's Auxiliary Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), 6 New Zealand General Hospital, Japan AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Active member of the Orari Bridge community in her early life.
Served in Coastal Batteries, Dunedin and Mt Pleasant, as well as a VAD in Burnham and Trentham Hospitals.
"WAACS FOR J FORCE
Fourteen Waacs at present in camp at Fort Dorset are anxiously awaiting the final word that will decide whether all or only a portion of their number will sail in the Empire Pride with the J Force replacement draft.
In charge of the W.A.A.C. draft is Subaltern Marjory Hardcastle, daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Hardcastle, Lower Hutt, and one of the first to join the W.A.A.C. She went to New Caledonia with the first medical division, was later in charge of W.A.A.C. helpers at Bourail Club, and, since returning from the Pacific, has been in charge of the W.A.A.C. detachment at Papakura.
Three other members of the party, Miss Mavis Freeman, Miss Yolande Innes, and Miss Joyce Ford, have served overseas, the two former on the staff of a hospital ship and the latter in the Pacific.
Members of the draft are: Subaltern Hardcastle (Lower Hutt), Privates Daphne Bayne (Dunedin), Agnes Elliott (Gore), Ford (South Canterbury), Freeman (Wellington), Constance Gilbert (Christchurch), Innes (Wellington), Bernice Jones (New Plymouth), Cecille Mack (Wellington), Alice McAndrew (Wairoa), Dinah McPherson (Foxton), Patsy Penty (Auckland), Mary and Zita Schumacher (twin sisters from Midhurst), and Barbara Taylor (Auckland)." (WAACS FOR J FORCE: Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24884, 25 May 1946, Page 2)
Received the Q.S.M. in 1993. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 14 Aug 2005 WWII WAAC Roll
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Sources
- External links
- J-Force. New Zealand nurses and Japanese women. A recording made by Joyce Ford in Japan in 1946 can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue (ID: 9438
).
https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/
Further Reference - GERALDINE HOME FROM PACIFIC, Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22977, 22 August 1944, Page 3
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19440822.2.21
Further Reference - Orari Bridge, Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22978, 23 August 1944, Page 1
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19440823.2.3.7
Further Reference - WAACS FOR J FORCE, Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24884, 25 May 1946, Page 2
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19460525.2.8
Further Reference - J Force Wikipedia Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Force
Further Reference - Romano, G. (2021, March 4). Jayforce: 75 years on. Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/jayforce
Further Reference - Johnston, S. (2025, August 11). Voices of J Force: Recordings of New Zealanders in post-war Japan. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stories/stories/new-zealand-history/voices-of-j-force-recordings-of-new-zealanders-in-post-war-japan/
Further Reference
- J-Force. New Zealand nurses and Japanese women. A recording made by Joyce Ford in Japan in 1946 can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue (ID: 9438
).
- 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.
- 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.
p.43 - 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.
p.32 - Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press.
- WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074)
- WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Middle East - Drafts - Strength Return [and Embarkation Rolls] (1943-1945). Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R22502075).
- Parr, A. (2012). The occupiers : New Zealand veterans remember post-war Japan. Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin.
- McKinney, J. (1952). Medical units of 2NZEF in Middle East and Italy. Wellington, N.Z.: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Stout, T. D. M. (1958). Medical services in New Zealand and the Pacific, in Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal New Zealand Air Force and with prisoners of war. War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
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