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Cenotaph record

Percival Charles Fifield Pierce

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percival Charles Fifield AWMM
  • Surname
    Pierce AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Percy AWMM
  • Service number
    545041 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    5 July 1913 AWMM Geraldine, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Cromwell, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Postal Worker/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Margaret Ellen Pierce (wife), Ballina Street , Cromwell, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    545041 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

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
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son George

    Husband of Ellen (Margaret Ellen nee Garvan); father of John Hugh; Ray (Ainsley Raymond); Isla Margaret

    His son Ray was born whilst his father was serving in Fiji

    Started as a messenger boy in the Post Office and ended up as a manager with the Post Office AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    9 November 1995 AWMM
    Age 82 AWMM
    Browns Bay, Auckland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    North Shore Memorial Park and Crematorium (Schnapper Rock), Albany, North Shore City, New Zealand AWMM Northern Division RSA Ash Lawn Section 2 Block G Row D Plot 57 AWMM
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  • Memorial name
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Memorials

Memorial

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