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Ian Alexander Orr

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ian Alexander AWMM
  • Surname
    Orr AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Alexander Ian AWMM
  • Service number
    458220 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Tuakau, South Auckland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Pukekawa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr K.D. Orr (father), Tuakau, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    458220 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
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM
  • 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 Patricia; father of Kay, Gordon, Jane and Ruth

    Listed as Alexander Ian Orr on the Nominal Roll AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    8 March 2006 AWMM
    Age 82 AWMM
    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, March 2006 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Roll of Honour

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  • To Dad,

    Thanks for your contribution in WW11 by going overseas in the army for NZ. You told me a few stories of which you kept light for my ears. I was proud of what you felt you had to do by volunteering and how it changed the course of your life later. You never complained about that. Thanks to all of those before you and after who did the same thing.
    Public - Jane - Child - 20 October 2017
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Sources

Sources

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  • 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 108 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, March 2006 AWMM

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20 October 2017Jane Richmond, NZChild

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