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Desmond Albert Saies

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Desmond Albert AWMM
  • Surname
    Saies AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Des AWMM
  • Service number
    63339 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    5 November 1919 AWMM Kawakawa, Bay of Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 25 February 1941 AWMM Moerewa, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Wilmot Ruth Miles (mother), Moerewa, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 7 April 1941 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    Trained at Papakura and Hopuhopu AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 25 February 1941 AWMM
    Age 21 AWMM
    Clerk AWMM
  • 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

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Disembarked at Suez on 15 May 1941 and went by train to Cairo.

    Private Saies was part of a mobile dental unit which served in North Africa and Italy.

    Embarked on Mauretania (with New Amsterdam and escorts - Australia, Hobard and Achilles). The first port of call was Sydney.The escort from there consisted of Queen Elizabeth, Ile de France, Queen Mary.

    Desmond married in 1948 and had three children. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    1 May 1992 AWMM
    Age 72 AWMM
    Takapuna, North Shore City AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    North Shore Memorial Park and Crematorium (Schnapper Rock), Albany, North Shore City, New Zealand AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 4 /5th May 1992 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • 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 310 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 8 May 1992 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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