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Cenotaph record

Bruce Verner Meiklejohn

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Bruce Verner AWMM
  • Surname
    Meiklejohn AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 2868 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1914 BDM, births BDM, births
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 1938 AWMM 15 Park Avenue, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mr L.D.A. Meiklejohn (father), Ruakaka, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1945 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 2868 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 2NZEF Nom Rolls 1, p. 123 Bridge builder/Civilian 2NZEF Nom Rolls 1, p. 123
    Whangarei, Northland 2NZEF Nom Rolls 1, p. 123
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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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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  • Son of Lemuel Sydney Arnott Meiklejohn and Elsie Meiklejohn. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    5 October 1968 BDM, deaths; Cem Record
    Age 54 AWMM
    BDM, deaths; Cem Record
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Maunu Cemetery, Cemetery Road off State Highway 14, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand AWMM RSA Block Nine Plot 543 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Whangarei District Council cemetery record
    http://www.wdc.govt.nz/SearchCentre/Pages/CemeteryBurialDetails.aspx?CMID=6607&CMType=burial
    Sources Used
  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 1: WW2 123 AWMM
    • Dawson, W. (1961). 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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