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Bertram George Mead

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Portrait, George Bertram Mead - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait, George Bertram Mead - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Bertram George AWMM
  • Surname
    Mead AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    62117 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Anglican, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    18 October 1916 AWMM Ponsonby, Auckland City AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 33 Ponsonby Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    School teacher/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs E. Mead (mother), 33 Ponsonby Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 01 Apr 1941-30 June 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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Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details
    WW2 Private AWMM

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt AWMM
      Jul 1942-Apr 1945 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - E535 Milowitz, Milowitz, Poland AWMM
    • WW2
      15 July 1942 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Salonike, Greece - VIII-B Lamsdorf, Germany 2NZEF, Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. N.Z. 1945.
      Germany, Europe 2NZEF, Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. N.Z. 1945.
    • WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
      Italy, Europe Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
    WW2 1 April 1945 AWMM
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number
    WWII 33303 AWMM

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      G.S.W. Right thigh, admitted to hospitals in Italy, Stoke Manderville, U.K.; Military Annex, Auckland AWMM
    • Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
      War injuries AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    WW2 17 April 1945 AWMM
    War injuries AWMM
    Private AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Copies of lists of the items prisoners of war got in Red Cross food parcels are held in the Museum Library Manuscript Collection. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    17 April 1995 AWMM
    Age 78 AWMM
    Avondale, Auckland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of wounds AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Block K, Row 10a, Plot 56. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 April 1995 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • In memory of a loving father and grandfather. So greatly loved and so dearly missed.
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Auckland Council. West (Waikumete) burial and cremation records search
    http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/parksfacilities/cemeteries/Pages/westcemeterysearch.aspx
    Sources Used
  • 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 243 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 18 April 1995 AWMM
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM

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