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Jack Winston Bennett

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Jack Winston AWMM
  • Surname
    Bennett AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    628293 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 May 1924 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Farm Road, Waipukurau, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    H.H.G. Bennett (father), Box 64, Waipukurau, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

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  • Jack Bennett, a farmer from the Wairarapa, served in Egypt and Italy, then went to Japan as a member of the 27 Battalion, New Zealand's contribution to the British Commonwealth Occupational Force in Japan (Jayforce).

    Jack Bennett is quoted in the 'Scars on the Heart' exhibition, describing his experience with the 27th Battalion in Japan, 'It rained all day with a strength that I have never seen anywhere else. It had a mournful sound and, in our present state of boredom, drives us nearly mad.'

    A number of items belonging to Jack Bennett, relating to his overseas service, are displayed in the exhibition 'The End at Last' of 'Scars on the Heart' in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    1985 AWMM
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Memorials

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  • In honour of my dear father.
    Public - Virginia - Child - 10 March 2024
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Sources

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    • 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
      WW2 15: WW2 14 AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM
    • Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls J-force personnel from Italy Middle East to Japan. Archives New Zealand (R22440245) AWMM
      p.101 AWMM

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