Meryll Arabella Neely

Forenames

Meryll Arabella AWMM

Surname

Neely AWMM

Service number

WWII 48402 AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

9 Nov 1904 Births, Deaths and Marriages

Address before enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Brackenfield, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mrs E.L. Neely (mother), "Brackenfield", Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 48402 AWMM

Military service

• Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) AWMM
• Tuis AWMM
• Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Welfare Division, Middle East AWMM
• Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), General Division, Middle East AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) AWMM
  MBE gazetted London Gazette Supplement 21 June 1945 AWMM
• 1939-1945 Star AWMM
• Africa Star AWMM
• Italy Star AWMM
• Defence Medal AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• British Empire Medal (BEM) AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Book keeper Stenographer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Second Lieutenant AWMM Women's War Service Auxillary AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Last rank

• Lieutenant Commander/Military AWMM
• WW2 May 1945 WAACs (R22502074) Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) WAACs (R22502074)

Death

5 Jul 1975 Cambridge Museum Biography

Date of death

05 Jul 1975

Public - Kim - Researcher - 3 February 2015 - http://www.cambridgemuseum.org.nz/Military/ww2/ww2strys.htm

Related objects

External links

Cambridge Museum Biography
http://www.cambridgemuseum.org.nz/Military/ww2/ww2strys.htm
Sources Used

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 5: WW2 156
• Neely, Meryll Arabella. Papers. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 801.
• Gardiner, Dorothy J. 'New Zealand Women in the Forces', 1866 - 1946. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2002/144.
• Montgomerie, D. (2001). The women's war : New Zealand women 1939-45. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.
• 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. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.156
• WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074)