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Justin Aylmer Fenton

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Justin Fenton in 1939 - This image may be subject to copyright

Justin Fenton in 1939 - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Justin Aylmer AWMM
  • Surname
    Fenton AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Bill AWMM
  • Service number
    22753 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Anglican, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 February 1919 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 21 June 1939 AWMM Narrow Neck Camp, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Hotel manager/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs H.C. Fenton (mother), 5 Poronui Street, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 27 August 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    Army School of Instruction, Trentham AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 21 June 1939 AWMM
    Age 20 AWMM
    Tractor operator/Civilian AWMM
    Trentham, Upper Hutt 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
    Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
    Emphysema, Cor. Pulmonale, Acute Right Ventricular failure AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • While at Maadi Camp was an Instructor and in Administration. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    • 21 June 1987 AWMM
      Age 68 AWMM
      Mount Maunganui, Tauranga AWMM
    • 14 August 1966 21Bn Assoc. Inc. Records. MS-2008-42.
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Tauranga Cemeteries, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM A2, Plot 332 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    New Zealand Herald 23 June 1987 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      New Zealand Herald 23 June 1987 AWMM
    • Tauranga Cemeteries, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand 7159 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
      p.148 AWMM
    • Veterans' club : the comradeship and memories of Auckland's 21st infantry battalion. Auckland War Memorial Museum : Auckland. Accompanies exhibition held in the Pictorial Gallery, second floor, Auckland War Memorial Museum, 24 March-21 May 2006. AWMM
    • 21 New Zealand Infantry Battalion Association Inc. Records, 1955 - 2005. Auckland War Memorial Museum. MS-2008-42. AWMM
    • 21 Battalion (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45) AWMM
    • Burdon, R. (1959). 24 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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