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Joyce Evelyn Ford

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Portrait, Joyce Evelyn Ford in uniform, sepia tint - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait, Joyce Evelyn Ford in uniform, sepia tint - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Joyce Evelyn AWMM
  • Surname
    Ford AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Bennett AWMM
    • Joyce Evelyn Bennett AWMM
  • Service number
    820413 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    24 November 1919 AWMM Orari Bridge, Canterbury AWMM
    Orari Bridge, Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 1 August 1942 AWMM Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs L. Ford (mother), Orari Bridge, Geraldine, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1 May 1944 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
    • Pacific Theatre of War AWMM
    • 1946-1948 British Commonwealth Occupational Force, Japan AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    820413 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Aug 1942 AWMM
    Age 22 AWMM
    Home Help/Civilian 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
    Other, Unknown Period AWMM
    Wore Spectacles AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served in Coastal Batteries, Dunedin and Mt Pleasant, as well as a VAD in Burnham and Trentham Hospitals.

    Received the Q.S.M. in 1993. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    14 August 2005 WWII WAAC Roll
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • 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. 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.43 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
      p.32 AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM

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