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Ralph Kenneth Rutherford

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ralph Kenneth AWMM
  • Surname
    Rutherford AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Ken AWMM
    • R. K. Rutherford AWMM
  • Service number
    • Vietnam F3400083 AWMM
    • Vietnam 340083 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    14 December 1935 AWMM
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  • 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 Joyce

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice

    Visited Vietnam as Chief Engineer. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    21 May 2011 AWMM
    Three Kings, Auckland City 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, 23 May 2011 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 23 May 2011 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co. AWMM
    • Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books. AWMM
    • This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. AWMM

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