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Alexander Robert Muir

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Identity

  • Title
  • Forenames
    Alexander Robert AWMM
  • Surname
    Muir AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    60314 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 February 1919 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM NZPF AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1 September 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

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
    Unknown AWMM Soldier/Military AWMM
    PapakuraAuckland 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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  • Family recall he spent most of his time as a medic.

    Alexander Muir kept a diary on scraps of paper and took photographs throughout the war these have been donated to the Army Museum, Waiouru. He then went on to write his reminiscences and his family collated all the materials in a book. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    21 October 1999 AWMM
    Age 80 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Kauae Cemetery, 365 - 383 Ngongotaha Road, Rotorua District, New Zealand AWMM Block 20. Section C. Plot 18. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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