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Cenotaph record

Esther Kruse

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Esther AWMM
  • Surname
    Kruse AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Grace AWMM
  • Service number
    W5677 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female 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
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 31 July 1943 Errol Martyn WAAF Research
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

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

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Wife of Noel

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    13 September 2011 AWMM
    Age 87 AWMM
    Tokoroa, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Tokoroa Cemetery, Dumfries Road, Tokoroa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald,14 September 2011 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald,14 September 2011 AWMM

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