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Bernard James Ogilvy

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Names plinth, Waiotemarama memorial, Northland, supplied by GA Fortune 2008 - Image has All Rights Reserved

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Bernard James AWMM
  • Surname
    Ogilvy AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Ogilvie AWMM
    • James Bernard Ogilvy AWMM
  • Service number
    • 62624 AWMM
    • 29477 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    14 July 1897 AWMM Opononi, Hokianga AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • WW1 Pre 21 July 1917 AWMM Opononi, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM
    • WW2 Pre 31 July 1940 AWMM 31 Mile Road, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • The address was Nile Rd not Mile Public - Russell - Other relative - 5 October 2018 - Personal knowledge
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 Mrs W.M. Ogilvy (mother), Opononi, New Zealand AWMM
    • WW2 Mrs Jane Elizabeth Ogilvy (mother), 31 Mile Road, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • The address was Nile not Mile Public - Russell - Other relative - 5 October 2018 - Personal knowledge
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    Entered camp 30 October 1940 AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      Corinth, Greece AWMM
      6 May 1941 AWMM
      German POW Hospital in Greece AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Greece POW Deaths (R25405152)
      Near Corinth AWMM
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      WW2 Gun shot wound to pelvis AWMM
    • Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
      Died whilst a POW of wounds in a POW hospital AWMM
    • 5 September 1941 AWMMOther, WWII AWMM
      Near Corinth in P.O.W. Fd. Hospital, Greece. AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Walter William Muir Ogilvy and Eliza Jane Ogilvy, of Milford

    Rifleman Ogilvy was 18 years when he first enlisted. He was a country boy and it would appear he did not respond well to military descipline as he spent sometime in the Field Punishment Centre. However not knowing the background to the offence (insubordinate language to his superior officer) it may well be that he had cause. (Taken from a letter to the Armoury Manager from Mr D Ogilvy, dated 17 February 1999)

    Military service: Rifleman Ogilvy entered camp on about 26 July 1917 and served 145 days within New Zealand, and 1 year 220 days overseas.

    He eventually returned to New Zealand on 21 July 1919, having left England on 23 June 1919 in Waimana.

    Family history research revealed that James put back his age so that he could enlist again in WW2. Private Ogilvy was admitted to a Greek Hospital on 26 April 1941 and a German POW Hospital on 6 May 1941. He died as a result of the gunshot wounds suffered near Corinth Greece at the NZ POW Hospital Corinth.

    He recorded his birth date as 14 July 1899 to enlist in WW2. Name spelled as Olgilvie on the Waiotemarama memorial. Next of kin listed in the Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945 with the address Takapuna, Auckland AWMM
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Death

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Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    • Athens Memorial, Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece AWMM
    • Waiotemarama Memorial, Hokianga, Northland AWMM
    • Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      75: 23 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 3: WW2 357 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Deaths While Prisoner of War - Navy, Army, Air Force and Civilians [WW2 NZ POW Deaths], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152). AWMM

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13 March 2021JordanWellingtonOther relative
05 October 2018RussellAucklandOther relative

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