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Peter Halcrow Cumming

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Peter Halcrow AWMM
  • Surname
    Cumming AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

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  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
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Service

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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
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  • POW serial number

Medical history

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    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Peter Halcrow was the son of Peter Halcrow Cumming, and of Margaret Jaffray Cumming, of Clinton, Otago, New Zealand.

    SS Tilawa was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I29, NW of Maldive Islands. The explosion caused panic among the passengers, who rushed the life boats and rafts. Some reports indicate 958 people were aboard. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    23 November 1942 AWMM
    Age 29 AWMM
    Indian Ocean AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
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  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
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Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London, England AWMM

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