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Cenotaph record

Nigel MacKenzie Cotching

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Portrait, Nigel MacKenzie Cotching, with rifle, back pack in countryside - This image may be subject to copyright

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Nigel MacKenzie AWMM
  • Surname
    Cotching AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • MacKenzie Cotching AWMM
    • Cotch AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 33526 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 April 1920 AWMM Stirling, Scotland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Pre 18 May 1940 AWMM Mangaroa Street, Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 C.E. Cotching, 78 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow, Scotland AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 20 May 1941 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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  • 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
    Pneumonia, deafness, dysentry. Treated at Suva and Auckland Hospitals AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Elizabeth; father of Helen, John, Bill

    After the war Nigel Cotching served in the Territorial Forces until 1962 as Lieutenant Colonel C.O., 1 Hawkes Bay Regiment.

    Service held at Russell, Bay of Islands

    Listed on the Nominal Roll as MacKenzie Cotching. Cenotaph record initially prepared with the serviceman in 1998 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    2 April 2007 AWMM
    Age 86 AWMM
    Whangarei, Northland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 4 April 2007 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 4: WW2 78 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 4 April 2007 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.89 AWMM
    • 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.33 AWMM
    • Puttick, E. (1960). 25 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Cenotaph record initially prepared with the service person. AWMM

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