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Cenotaph record

Eric Owen Courtney

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Eric Owen AWMM
  • Surname
    Courtney AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    22866 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 April 1909 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Tanekaha, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Farmer/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs O.M. Courtney (mother), Kara, North Auckland, 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
    22866 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 Farmer/Civilian AWMM
    Whangarei, Northland 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

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Typescript transcription taken from a series of four war diaries kept by Lance Bombardier Eric Owen Courtney held at Auckland War Memrial Museum manuscript colections. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    15 June 1993 AWMM
    Age 84 AWMM
    Whangarei, Northland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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