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Cenotaph record

Robert Mervyn Keate

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert Mervyn AWMM
  • Surname
    Keate AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • 438759 AWMM
    • NZ4310599 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 March 1922 AWMM Mercer, Auckland Province AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 7 July 1940 AWMM 24 Blockhouse Bay Road, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Painter AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs N D Keate (wife), 14 Levonia Street, Morningside, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 28 September 1944 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 7 July 1940 AWMM
    Age 18 AWMM
    Painter AWMM
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  • 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
    • Dental, Unknown Period AWMM
      False teeth AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Heart failure AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • First rank was listed as Temporary Lance Corporal

    Transferred to the RNZAF between 25 August 1943 and 9 July 1944

    Cremated at the Otahuhu Crematorium AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    13 March 1990 AWMM
    Age 67 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    14 March 1990 (NZ Herald?) AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.51 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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