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Bernard Walter Brown

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Bernard Walter AWMM
  • Surname
    Brown AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    41548 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    Inter War Feb 1938 AWMM Postal Worker/Civilian AWMM
    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
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
    1940 Wounded in leg, and Elbow, Admitted Minster and Maidstone Hospitals AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Transferred to RNZAF 1 January 1944

    Retired to new Zealand

    Portrait in Wynn, K. (1981). The Battle of Britain: 10 July - 31 October 1940 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    23 January 2017 AWMM
    Age 99 AWMM
    Tauranga, Bay of Plenty AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    'Obituary: Battle of Britain veteran dies in Tauranga', New Zealand Herald, 31 January 2017 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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