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Kenneth Bruce Thoms

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Kenneth Bruce Thoms

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Kenneth Bruce AWMM
  • Surname
    Thoms AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Bruce Thoms AWMM
  • Service number
    620422 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
    Unknown AWMM Howick Road, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs R. Thoms (mother), Howick Road, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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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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  • Married twice, husband of Valmai Mai and Joyce Beryl; father of Winnie, Doreen, Ruby, Susanne and Dianne

    Listed as Bruce on the Nominal Roll AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    22 October 2010 AWMM
    Cambridge, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 26 October 2010 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls J-force personnel from Italy Middle East to Japan. Archives New Zealand (R22440245)
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R22440245
    Sources Used
  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 15 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1945 to 31st December, 1945). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 15: WW2 141 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 26 October 2010 AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM
    • Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls J-force personnel from Italy Middle East to Japan. Archives New Zealand (R22440245) AWMM
      p.84 AWMM

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
05 February 2022ChristopherBrisbane, AustraliaOther relative
25 April 2018EmWaikato, NZDirect descendant
18 April 2015EmmaCambridgeOther Relative

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