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Ivan Reid Mitchell

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ivan Reid AWMM
  • Surname
    Mitchell AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • NZ404921 AWMM
    • 70063 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    24 June 1916 AWMM Napier, Hawkes Bay AWMM
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  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

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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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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Husband of Bella; father of Jo-Anne, Larry, Susan, Penny, Sally, Robyn

    Served with RNZAF 1940- 1968

    Embarked for training 1941, rank unknown. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    18 October 2008 AWMM
    Age 92 AWMM
    Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM
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  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
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  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 20 October 2008 AWMM
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  • Love and miss you Papa. Have been thinking about you a lot. You reached a great age, and thank you for being in my life. Love you with all my heart xx
    Public - Meg - Direct descendant - 16 November 2015
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Sources

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    • Hanson, C. (2001). By such deeds: honours and awards in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1923-1999. Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
    • Martyn, E. (1998-2008). For Your Tomorrow (Vols. 1-3). Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Hanson, C. (2001). By such deeds: honours and awards in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1923-1999. Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
      Hanson, C. (2001). p.352-3 AWMM
    • Martyn, E. (1998-2008). For Your Tomorrow (Vols. 1-3). Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
      Martyn, E. (2008). Vol. 3, p.593, ref.59 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 20 October 2008 AWMM
    • This record is a work in progress and was partially compiled from the “Database of New Zealand Airmen who took part in Advanced Air Training in Canada during WW2”. Researched by Ivan and Lorna Lindsey of Tauranga. N.Z. 2003 – 2012. Reproduced with permission. AWMM

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