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Cenotaph record

Douglas Latrobe Edwards

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Douglas Latrobe AWMM
  • Surname
    Edwards AWMM
  • Ingoa
    • Douglas LaTrove Edwards
    • Doug
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    434610 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    3 February 1922 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Muriwai RD, Waimauku, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr A.A. Edwards (father), Muriwai RD, Waimauku, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    434610 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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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

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Nan; father of Kent and Barry

    Service at Howick, New Zealand

    Name listed as Douglas LaTrove Edwards in the Nominal Roll AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    6 January 2008 AWMM
    Howick, Manukau 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, 8 January 2008 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
    https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
    Sources Used
  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 57 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 8 January 2008 AWMM

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