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Cenotaph record

English Māori

Oliver Adolphus Newell Luxton

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Oliver Adolphus Newell AWMM
  • Surname
    Luxton AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Snow Luxton AWMM
  • Service number
    447448 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Salvation Army AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    30 January 1923 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Johnstone Street, Tinwald, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Insurance representative/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr. A. C. Luxton, (father), Johnstone Street, Tinwald, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1944 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
    447448 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

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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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Queens Service Medal (QSM) for Community Service 2000

    Environment Canterbury, Outstanding contribution Award 2006

    Chairman, Ashburton Total Mobility 2004

    Involvement with the Alzheimers Disease and Related Orders Society

    Husband of Mavis Emily; father of Roselynn, Lorraine, Beverley and Karyn;

    son of Arthur Clifford Luxton and Nunnia Mauger Luxton

    Service at Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    17 June 2006 AWMM
    Age 83 AWMM
    Ashburton, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Ashburton Cemetery, Bremners Road and Seafield Road, Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM New Lawn, Plot 3115 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 20 June 2006 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • Documents
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 58 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 20 June 2006 AWMM
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