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Kevin Gerard Miles

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Kevin Gerard AWMM
  • Surname
    Miles AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWII 295826 AWMM
    • Vietnam 30433 AWMM
    • Malaya 30433 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    10 January 1921 AWMM Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM 10 Taylor Crescent, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
    • Malaya Wellington AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs J. Miles (wife), 57A Barbados Street, St. Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Constance ("Billie" for 57.5 years); bother of Malcolm Miles of Christchurch, New Zealand

    Territorial Force 1937-42

    New Zealand Army 1939-43

    2NZEF 1943-1946

    Jayforce 1946-1949

    Kayforce

    Service at Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    24 June 2008 AWMM
    Age 87 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 26 June 2008 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • 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 134 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 16: WW2 91 AWMM
    • McGibbon, I.C. (1992-1996). New Zealand and the Korean War (Vols. 1-2). Auckland, N.Z.; Wellington, N.Z.: Oxford University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs. AWMM
      McGibbon, (1992 - 1996). Vol. 2, p. 267, 269, 352, 392 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 26 June 2008 AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM
    • FARELF Nominal Roll Part 2 1962-1963- Archives New Zealand, Wellington, CAJN CH189/Box70 41/4/11 (R21234083) AWMM

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