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Cenotaph record

English Māori

Rowland Harrison

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rowland AWMM
  • Surname
    Harrison AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    67293 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 C/o New Zealand Dairy Company, Te Awamutu, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs E. Harrison (wife), C/o Mrs M. Sawers, Union Street, Milton, 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
    67293 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Farm hand AWMM
    Te Kuiti, Waikato AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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 Elizabeth; father of Madeleine, Bill, Donald and John AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    8 November 2006 AWMM
    Age 86 AWMM
    Coromandel, Coromandel District AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Christ (Anglican) Church Cemetery, Tiki Road, Coromandel AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 9 November 2006 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • Documents
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 7 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1942 to 31st March, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 7: WW2 63 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 9 November 2006 AWMM
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