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Cyril John Cousins

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Group photograph of D Company, 20th Battalion Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, dated 13th August 1941. (November 2020)

Group photograph of D Company, 20th Battalion Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, dated 13th Aug …

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Cyril John AWMM
  • Surname
    Cousins AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Jack AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 8419 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    4 May 1907 AWMM Otautau, Southland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM 77 Selwyn Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs S. Ross (mother), Ohai, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      1 December 1941 AWMM
    • WW2
      Rome cables PoW - Camp unstated AWMM
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
    • WW2 26 April 1943 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
    • WW2 1 May 1943 WW2 POW Medically Unfit (R25405151) Returned to United Kingdom AWMM
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Photographs taken in Cairo early in 1940 and reporduced in a book entitled An Honourable Surrender: A New Zealand soldier remembers by John Hogg MM, include images of Jack Cousins (possibly Cyril John Cousins). AWMM

Death

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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
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Memorials

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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 1: WW2 42 AWMM
    • Pringle, D., & Glue, W. (1957). 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Prisoners of War 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Repatriated Medically Unfit Protected Personnel [WW2 POW Medically Unfit], 1943 [1946], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393/1/v (R25405151) AWMM

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