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Cenotaph record

John Joffre Adams

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    John Joffre AWMM
  • Surname
    Adams AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • 813206 AWMM
    • Interwar/Regular Military Service 1717 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    2 May 1915 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 119 Chapter Street, St Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs E. J. Adams (wife), 119 Chapter Street, St Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1945 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
    1946-1948 British Commonwealth Occupational Force, Japan AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    • 813206 AWMM
    • Interwar/Regular Military Service 1717 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Training and Enlistment

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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Member of the Regular Force before and after WWII. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    24 July 1996 AWMM
    Age 81 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Canterbury Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM Roselands Block, Plot L7 AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 15 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1945 to 31st December, 1945). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
    p.3. AWMM

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