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Leonard Gordon Andrews

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Leonard Gordon AWMM
  • Surname
    Andrews AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    14884 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 August 1935 AWMM
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Service

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
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  • Liberation date
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Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served in Operation Grapple (nuclear testing).

    Husband of Yvonne ; Father of Marie, Denise.

    Served in Operation Grapple on HMNZ Pukaki from 14.8.1956 to 10.6.1958. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    17 October 2013 AWMM
    Age 78 AWMM
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  • Cemetery
    Plot 277, Row 11A, Service Persons Ash Burial Area K, Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland AWMM
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  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 21 October 2013 AWMM
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Sources

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    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 21 October 2013 AWMM
    • This record was created from Operation Grapple research by Arthur Venus and Gerry Wright and kindly provided by Gerry Wright (2021). AWMM
    • Wright, G. C. (2007). We were there : Operation Grapple : the story of New Zealand's involvement in the British nuclear weapons tests at Christmas Island 1957-58. [Auckland, N.Z : Gerry Wright] AWMM

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