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Robert White

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert AWMM
  • Surname
    White AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Jock AWMM
  • Service number
    • Malaya 928518 AWMM
    • Vietnam 928518 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 February 1937 AWMM Fort William, Scotland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    808 Princess Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Durham, England AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • 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
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Robert White and Alastair Don were killed when the front of their vehicle, Romeo 2, 161 Bty, was blown up by a command detonated mine.

    Formerly buried ar Terendak Camp, Malacca, Malaysia. Returned to New Zealand as part of the Te Auraki Repatraition Project in 2018.

    Memorial Flag - Presented to widow, Mrs Poko White of Auckland, received the New Zealand Operational Service Medal on his behalf from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence at a presentation at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on Thursday 27 November 2003.

    Killed in action - land mine.

    Remembered on the Papakura - Karaka War Memorial.

    The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) began repatriating the remains of personnel buried in Malaysia during 2018.

    This is part of project Te Auraki (The Return), under which the NZDF is bringing home personnel and dependants buried overseas after 1 January, 1955, following a change in Government policy.

    Killed in action, 14 September 1965 – Land Rover towing trailer with ammunition hit command detonated mine. Read citation for Cross of Gallantry with Palm. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    14 September 1965 War Graves
    Age 28 AWMM
    Vietnam, Southeast Asia War Graves
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Papakura South Cemetery, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM Plot 021, Row K, Gatland Road Block 2 Sth AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice (Repatriation): New Zealand Herald, 21 August 2018 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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    • Auckland War Memorial Museum, Hall of Memories. Vietnam. AWMM
    • Papakura - Karaka War Memorial, Great South Road, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM

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Sources

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  • References
    • Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co. AWMM
      Subritsky, M. (Compiler). (1995). Photographs p.45; p. 53, 56, 45, 161, 197. AWMM
    • This record was partially created from Cemetery research completed by Carol Foster (2021). AWMM
      New Zealand Ex-Vietnam Services Association Inc. AWMM
    • 1st Battalion - New Zealand Regiment - Historical Records - General, July 1957-1959, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADRC 17588 2/1/1 (R17928162). AWMM
    • Clamp, B., Clamp, D., & 1st Battalion the New Zealand Regiment (1957-59) Association. (2007). 1st battalion the New Zealand regiment (1957-59) association 50th anniversary: the first of the first. B. Clamp. AWMM
    • FARELF Nominal Roll Part 1 1958-1961 - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, CAJN CH189/Box70 41/4/11 (R21234083) AWMM

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