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James Alan Roy Gudsell

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Auckland War Memorial Museum, Hall of Memories. Korea, Malaya-Borneo (taken in April 1999). - This image may be subject to copyright

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    James Alan Roy AWMM
  • Surname
    Gudsell AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    Malaya 78306 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    11 October 1938 AWMM Ashburton, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
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  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
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  • Enlistment
    Malaya 19 January 1956 AWMM Radar Mechanic AWMM
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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
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Medical history

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    Died from Natural Causes, Cause of Death AWMM
    Natural causes AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • To Singapore with 75 Squadron (Canberra) on 16th March 1959, collapsed on board Hastings aircraft flying him Darwin-Singapore and hospitalised on arrival 18th March 1959, died 21st March 1959.

    Son of Warrant Officer Alan Roy Gudsell, RNZAF and Mrs Mary Isabella Gudsell (nee Bland), Auckland. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    21 March 1959 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died from Natural Causes AWMM
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  • Cemetery
    • Cremated, ashes returned to New Zealand AWMM
    • Ulu Pandan Cemetery AWMM
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Memorials

Memorial

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    Auckland War Memorial Museum, Hall of Memories. Korea, Malaya-Borneo. AWMM

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Sources

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    • Pugsley, C. (2003). From emergency to confrontation: the New Zealand armed forces in Southeast Asia, 1949-1966. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. AWMM
      Pugsley, C. (2003). From emergency to confrontation: the New Zealand armed forces in Southeast Asia, 1949-1966. Oxford, UK. OUP. AWMM
    • Gurr, Robert M. (1995). Voices from a border war : a history of 1 Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, 1963 to 1965. Melbourne, Vic.: Robert Gurr. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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