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Clarence Mores Spence

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Dad just after the war.

Clarence Mores Spence

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Clarence Mores AWMM
  • Surname
    Spence AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    264243 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Manunui, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs B. Spence (mother), Waikura Terrace, Manunui, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
    • Married - Joy Ellen Frae i Public - Josie Mary - Child - 29 January 2015 - Family oral history. They had 9 children, 7 still living.
    • Of his 9 children, 6 now living. Public - Josie Mary - Child - 12 June 2023 - Oral information

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    264243 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Butcher/Civilian AWMM
    Taumarunui, Taupo 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

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    13 June 1999 AWMM
    Age 77 AWMM
    Paeroa, Hauraki District AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 15 June 1999 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Roll of Honour

Remember Clarence Mores Spence by laying a poppy.

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  • Love you Grandad, thank you for all you did so that we would know peace and continue your legacy as being agents of peace.
    Public - Grace - Direct descendant - 25 April 2023
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  • You carried the war in your chest.
    May your descendants rest unscarred.
    Public - Shem - Direct descendant - 25 April 2021
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  • We thank you for the freedom we now enjoy because of your sacrifice and contribution in representing NZ.
    Public - Daniel Graham - Child - 25 April 2020
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  • Love you Dad
    Remembering you on the Anzac Day 2020

    Josie🌺
    Public - Josie - Child - 25 April 2020
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  • Love you Dad and thanks :)
    Public - Linda - Child - 25 April 2020
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  • I miss you dad . Thanx for your contribution in making our country safe
    Public - Thomas Henry - Child - 25 April 2020
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 13: WW2 117 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 15 June 1999 AWMM
    • Puttick, E. (1960). 25 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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12 June 2023Josie MaryTHAMESChild
25 April 2023GraceToowoomba Australia Direct descendant
25 April 2021ShemBrisbane, Australia Direct descendant
25 April 2020Daniel GrahamTaurangaChild
25 April 2020JosieThames, New Zealand Child

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