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Cenotaph record

Heruini Constance Johnston

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Heruini Constance AWMM
  • Surname
    Johnston AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Heruini Constance Dickie AWMM
    • Heruinui AWMM
    • Pip AWMM
    • Heruini Constance Dickie AWMM
    • Heruini Constance Johnston AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 17880 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1913 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 26 February 1941 AWMM C/o Queen Mary Hospital, Hamner, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs A.H. Payne (sister), 100 Black's Road, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1941 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1936 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 26 February 1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.95 Nurse 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.95
    Burnham, Canterbury 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.95
  • 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

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Wife of (Lieutenant Colonel) Robert Ewen Johnston; mother of Don, Mike, Steve, Sue AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    23 April 2008 AWMM
    Age 95 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Ruru Lawn Cemetery, off Ruru Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM Returned Services Section AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 28 April 2008 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 4: WW2 95 AWMM
    • Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett. AWMM
    • McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.95 AWMM

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