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Cenotaph record

Desmond George Bertrand Ryder

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Desmond George Bertrand AWMM
  • Surname
    Ryder AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Desmond George Bertram Ryder AWMM
  • Service number
    458550 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    10 August 1923 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM C/o Bank of New Zealand, Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr A.B.T. Ryder (father), Puketutu, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1944 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
    Te Kuiti, Waikato 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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  • Husband of Lyn; father of Michael, Margaret, Peter, Jim, Kevin, Niki and Greg

    Service at Motueka RSA AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    3 September 2007 AWMM
    Age 84 AWMM
    Motueka, Tasman AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Motueka Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Motueka off Old Wharf Road, Tasman District, New Zealand AWMM RSA Block, Plot 91, Row 2 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 5 September 2007 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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