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Dudley Robert King

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Dudley Robert AWMM
  • Surname
    King AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 37838 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    14 August 1919 BDM, deaths
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Pre 1941 AWMM Sealey Street, Temuka, South Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs E. King (mother), Sealey Street, Temuka, South Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1945 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 37838 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown 2NZEF Nom Roll 4, p. 192 Chemist's assistant/Civilian 2NZEF Nom Roll 4, p. 192
    Timaru, Canterbury 2NZEF Nom Roll 4, p. 192
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    WW2
    Rome cables PoW - cam unstated AWMM
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
    WW2 15 July 1943 WW2 POW Medically Unfit (R25405151) Returned to New Zealand AWMM
  • 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 Olive for sixty five years; father of Jan, Raelene.

    Death notice records he was a Prisoner of War (POW). AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    16 January 2014 BDM, deaths; Death notice
    Age 94 AWMM
    Remuera, Auckland BDM, deaths; Death notice
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, New Zealand AWMM Services section, Plot 43 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 January 2014 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 4: WW2 192 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 January 2014 AWMM
    • Armoury Cenotaph File AWMM
    • Prisoners of War 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Repatriated Medically Unfit Protected Personnel [WW2 POW Medically Unfit], 1943 [1946], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393/1/v (R25405151) AWMM

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