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James Colin Ball

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    James Colin AWMM
  • Surname
    Ball AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    281087 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
    WW2 Pre 1942 AWMM Matakohe AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs. H. Ball, Matakohe (m) AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    281087 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

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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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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    • Husband of Marina; father of Philip, Linda

      Interred in Matakohe churchyard AWMM
    • Husband of Mary Eleanor (nee Sims) 1st wife Father of Philip Sharon Graeme Linda Public - Philip James - Child - 23 February 2015 - I am Dad's oldest son and source for this

Death

About death

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  • Death
    3 March 2007 AWMM
    Age 86 AWMM
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  • 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, 7 March 2007 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Dad honoured Mums dieing wish that all three of us children would be together while we were growing up and he kept this promise. A gentleman of great integrity and one fierce passionate love Mary Eleanor (nee Sims) the day she died the light in Dad's eyes died until his grandson Antares walked into the room all those years later.
    Public - Philip James - Child - 23 February 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • 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. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 9: WW2 19 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 7 March 2007 AWMM

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23 February 2015Philip JamesAuckland New ZealandChild

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