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Robert David Norwood

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert David AWMM
  • Surname
    Norwood AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    4691 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    22 July 1919 Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018 - FindMyPast (2018). Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
    Transcription. Retrieved Jul 27, 2018, from
    Find My Past website:
    https://www.findmypast.co.uk
  • Place of birth
    Holborn, London
    Immigrated to New Zealand in 1926 with his mother Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018 - FindMyPast (2018). Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
    Transcription. Retrieved Jul 27, 2018, from
    Find My Past website:
  • Birth notes
    Son of Kathleen CHESTER & Robert Harold NORWOOD Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018 - FreeBDMS (2018). UK GRO Index, Births Retrieved Jul 27,
    2018, from Free BDM website:
    https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Aerodrome Branch, Public Works Department, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Became an architect and moved to Ghana in the 1950's Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018 - FindMyPast (2018). Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
    Transcription. Retrieved Jul 27, 2018, from
    Find My Past website:
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs K.C. Cresswell (mother), C/o Youth Centre, Civic Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
    • Kathleen CHESTER married 2nd Arthur Jubilee CRESSWELL Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018 - Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (2018). Historic
      Marriages. Retrieved Jul 27, 2018, from
      Department of Internal Affairs website:
      https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  • 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
    4691 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 AWMM Draughtsman/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • 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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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Robert David NORWOOD's father was Robert Harold NORWOOD a Chief Petty Officer in the Untied States Navy. He was born abt 1891 and died in 1920, he was the son of Robert Joseph NORWOOD
    Public - Erina - Other relative - 28 July 2018
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Sources

Sources

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  • 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 135 AWMM

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28 July 2018ErinaWanganui, New ZealandOther relative

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