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Isabel Jean Cochran

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Isabel Jean AWMM
  • Surname
    Cochran AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Ryan AWMM
    • Isabel Jean Ryan AWMM
  • Service number
    42626 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    28 June 1914 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM High Street, Marton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr B. Cochran (father), High Street, Marton, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Italy AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    42626 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1939 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
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  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Trained at Wanganui Hospital 1939.

    Staff Nurse at Waiouru 17 February1941

    She served overseas with 3NZGH and 1 NZGH in Egypt, the Western Desert and Italy.

    Promoted to Charge sister -15 January 1944

    She met and married her husband Winton Herbert Ryan while serving overseas.

    Member of NZ Returned Army Sisters' Association. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    17 January 1999 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Obituary: New Zealand Herald, 28 January 1999 AWMM
  • Memorial name
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Sources

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  • 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 71 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Obituary: New Zealand Herald, 28 January 1999 AWMM
    • Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett. AWMM
    • McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb. 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
      p.71 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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