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Charlie Riley

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Charlie AWMM
  • Surname
    Riley AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    London, England AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
    • France and Germany (TBC) AWMM
    • 06 Jul 1937-25 July 1937 Spanish Civil War (6-25 July 1937) AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • 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, WWI AWMM
      Wounded France and invalided to England AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, Spanish Civil War AWMM
      Wounded 1938 Battle of the Ebro River, Spain and invalided to Australia AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Wounded Middle East and invalided back to New Zealand AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Worked in Christchurch, New Zealand during the depression and active with the Christchurch Unemployed Workers' Movement

    Moved to Australia after a 6 month imprisonment for possessing "seditious literature".

    Employed as a miner in Australia and joined the British Battalion of the International Brigades

    Wounded 1938 Battle of the Ebro River and invalided back to Australia

    Living in New Zealand in 1939 and campaigning for refugees of the Spanish civil war

    Volunteered for the 1st Echelon AWMM
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    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 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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