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Cenotaph record

Alan Alfred Dray

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Alan Alfred AWMM
  • Surname
    Dray AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    NZ414602 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 November 1917 AWMM Cambridge, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Margaret; father of Elena

    Served RNZAF from 17 August 1941-24 May 1945, flying Mosquito light bomber as part of Pathfinder Force

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    5 April 2007 AWMM
    Age 91 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 April 2007 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 7 April 2007 AWMM
    • List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - Embarkation Lists, November 1940 - July 1942. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845762). AWMM

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