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Māori

Archibald Campbell Trousdale

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Portrait, Weekly News 10 December 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait, Weekly News 10 December 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Archibald Campbell AWMM
  • Surname
    Trousdale AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 20079 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 October 1895 AWMM Sydenham, Ontario AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Pre 27 October 1915 AWMM Harrowsmith, Ontario, Canada AWMM
    • Box 2 Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Box 2 Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Laura A. Trousdale (mother), Harrowsmith, Ontario, Canada AWMM
    • Mrs C.R. Trousdale (wife), Box 2 Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs C.R. Trousdale (wife), Box 2 Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards
    Military Cross (MC) AWMM
    30 December 1941 AWMM
    The National Archives. Recommendation for Award for Trousdale, Archibald Campbell. (Ref. WO 373/27/427). Military Cross. AWMM

Training and Enlistment

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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
    Wounds Diseases Etc., WWII AWMM
    Reported wounded 1941 AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Lt-Col A. C. Trousdale, MC; Howick, Auckland; born Canada, 20 Oct 1895; estate agent; comd 1 Bn North Auckland Regt Aug 1942-Jul 1943; CO 21 Bn 21 Jun-9 Jul 1944; comd Freyberg Wing, 2 NZEF PW Repat Unit (UK) 1944-45; wounded 22 Nov 1941. (Source: Cody, J.F. 21 Battalion. p.2.) AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    • 1970 AWMM
      New Zealand AWMM
    • 8 January 1970 21Bn Assoc. Inc. Records. MS-2008-42.
  • Date of death
    Jan 8 1970 Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Certificate from New Zealand added to his Canadian Veterans files
  • Age at death
    74y Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Certificate from ANZ house
  • Place of death
    His war record did not give a place but
    Death
    1970/ 25668 Trousdale Archibald Campbell 74Y
    cost $ Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Certificate on his memorial file does not state 'where' in New Zealand he died
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
    Cremation Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Military
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
    Find A Grave Memorial Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Also his son Richard https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54565855/richard-macklow-trousdale
  • Memorial reference
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194152886/archibald-campbell-trousdale Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018 - Find a Grave

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Honouring your service in both WWI & WWII. And Our UE roots .
    Public - Aurorae Donna - Other relative - 25 October 2018
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • Documents
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 2: WW2 188 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 13: WW2 126 AWMM
    • 21 Battalion (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45) AWMM
      pp.2, 34, 73, 82, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93-4, 98, 109, 111, 112, 117, 119, 334, 348, 350. AWMM
    • Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
      pp.220, 378. AWMM
    • McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
      pp.176, 318, 325, 345. AWMM
    • Veterans' club : the comradeship and memories of Auckland's 21st infantry battalion. Auckland War Memorial Museum : Auckland. Accompanies exhibition held in the Pictorial Gallery, second floor, Auckland War Memorial Museum, 24 March-21 May 2006. AWMM
    • 21 New Zealand Infantry Battalion Association Inc. Records, 1955 - 2005. Auckland War Memorial Museum. MS-2008-42. AWMM

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