Identity
Title
Forenames
Thomas Edward AWMM
Surname
Coles AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
Service number
NZ40161 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Civilian life
Birth
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Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
Thomas Coles (father), Ponsonby Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
Service
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Liberation Repatriation
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Biographical information
Son of Thomas and Margaret Coles of Ponsonby, Auckland,
There is a reference to the loss of Thomas Coles and the rest of the crew in the diary of Sergeant Pilot Raymond Herbert John Broady (NZ39691). [Ref. MS 883]
In 1998 Adriaan de Winter and Ton van Alphen undertook a project in the Reichswald Forest Cemetery photographing all the headstones of New Zealanders buried there. AWMM
Death
Death
7 September 1942 AWMM
Age 28 AWMM
AWMM
Date of death
Age at death
Place of death
Cause of death
Death notes
Cemetery
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany AWMM 16 F 11 AWMM
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