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Bruce Clement Pointon

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    • Bruce Clement AWMM
    • Clement Bruce Public - Don - Child - 19 October 2015 - Name is Clement Bruce Pointon, NOT Bruce Clement Pointon. (Although always known as Bruce.) Source of this is numerous family documents and of course conversations with my father!
  • Surname
    Pointon AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    NZ9692 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

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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    • Husband of Bette; father of Beverley, Heather, Rosie, Sandy, Pene, Don

      Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM
    • Date of Birth: 6 February 1925 Public - Donald Lance - Child - 8 June 2015 - Family
    • Attended Hutt Valley High School 01.03.1937 to 12.04.1940. (3 Latin, 4 Latin, 5 Latin, 6) Public - archives - Researcher - 5 August 2017 - Hutt Valley High School archives student data base
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Death

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  • Death
    1 August 2010 AWMM
    Age 85 AWMM
    Eastbourne, Wellington AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald and Dominion Post, 4 August 2010 AWMM
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Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • Personnel - Demobilisation - RNZN [Royal New Zealand Navy], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, N1/427 (R21465798) AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald and Dominion Post, 4 August 2010 AWMM
    • Royal New Zealand Navy List (c.1921-c.1970) - kindly provided by Ralph McNabb. AWMM

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
05 August 2017archivesLower Hutt, Wellington, New ZealandResearcher
19 October 2015DonAuckland, NZChild
08 June 2015Donald LanceAuckland, New ZealandChild

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