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Cenotaph record

Matthew Joseph Brodie Darby

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Matthew Joseph Brodie AWMM
  • Surname
    Darby AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    464745 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 23 Peach Parade, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 23 Peach Parade, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs N.W. Darby (wife), 25 Peach Parade, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs N.W. Darby (wife), 25 Peach Parade, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    464745 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 Clerk AWMM
    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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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Attended Sacred Heart College, Auckland AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    10 July 2004 AWMM
    Age 95 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Sacred Heart School. Confortare Archives. News Old Boys Rest in Peace. (2005, May). Confortare.
    http://www.sacredheart.school.nz/our-community/Confortare-Archives/
    Further Reference
  • References
    • Confortare. Auckland, N.Z.: Sacred Heart College. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 9: WW2 100 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 15 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1945 to 31st December, 1945). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 15: WW2 37 AWMM

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