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Cenotaph record

Gordon Henry Williams

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Gordon Henry AWMM
  • Surname
    Williams AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Slim Williams AWMM
  • Service number
    1653 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    9 August 1911 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 15 September 1939 AWMM 57 Anglesea Street, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Driving/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs I. Williams (mother), 10 Dominion Street, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • North Africa AWMM
    • Minqar Qaim AWMM
    • El Alamein AWMM
    • Tunisia AWMM
    • Greece AWMM
    • 1941 Crete AWMM
    • Tobruk AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    1653 AWMM
  • Military service
    • School cadets AWMM
    • Territorials AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 15 September 1939 AWMM
    Age 28 AWMM
    Truck Driver/Civilian AWMM
    Hamilton, Waikato 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
      Dysentery AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Malaria (twice) AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Operation on feet AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Burns on both legs AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      admitted to a number of hospitals during his war service. They included hospitals at Alexandria, Maadi, Crete and an English one in the Canal Zone, Egypt. AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Cenotaph record initially prepared with the serviceman in 1999 AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    4 November 2002 AWMM
    Age 91 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
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.196 AWMM
    • Cenotaph record initially prepared with the service person. AWMM

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