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Roland David Anaru

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Roland David AWMM
  • Surname
    Anaru AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    815272 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
    Iwi Māori AWMM
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM 29 Pembroke Street, Caterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
    • Jayforce Unknown AWMM 29 Pembroke Street, Caterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs M.E. Anaru (mother), 29 Pembroke Street, Caterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
    • Jayforce Mrs M.E. Anaru (mother), 29 Pembroke Street, Caterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served with the 28 (Maori) Battalion in Italy AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    14 September 1990 AWMM
    New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
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  • Obituary
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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 4 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 16: WW2 4 AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM

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