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Cenotaph record

Jack Ramsey Gordon

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Jack Ramsey AWMM
  • Surname
    Gordon AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    269571 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Methodist, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 February 1921 AWMM Hamilton, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs A.J. Gordon (wife), C/o W. Mason, Main Highway, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 23 July 1943 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    • Machine gun school AWMM
    • Officer training AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 28 September 1940 AWMM
    Age 19 AWMM
    Student/Civilian AWMM
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  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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
    Dysentry, admitted to Hospital in Maadi AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband Audrey; father of Mary

    Cenotaph record initially prepared with the serviceman in 1999. Mr Gordon noted the details for the address on the Nominal Roll address are incorrect. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    4 May 2005 AWMM
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  • 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, May 2005 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Kay, R. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
      Correspondence with family AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 73 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, May 2005 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Cenotaph record initially prepared with the service person. AWMM

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