Sydney Hubert AWMM

Eddy AWMM

446779 AWMM

Male AWMM

b. 1923 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Son of Joseph Richard and Elizabeth Eddy, of Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Pre 1944 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Italy AWMM

Army AWMM

446779 AWMM

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

WW2 1944 2NZEF Nom. Roll 14, p.28 Shop assistant/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 14, p.28
Gisborne, Gisborne 2NZEF Nom. Roll 14, p.28

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 14, p.28 Infantry Reinforcements 2NZEF Nom. Roll 14, p.28 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Private AWMM
25 Infantry Battalion AWMM

11 Paengawhāwhā 1945 AWMM
Age 22 AWMM
Italy, Europe AWMM

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Faenza War Cemetery, Italy AWMM IV. C. 13. AWMM

COAST CASUALTIES $ MAORI BATTALION HIT District men serving with the New Zealand Division in Italy have paid a heavy toll in casualties during the latest period of activity on the part of the division, and the Maori Battalion again figures largely m the unit designations of men reported killed or wounded -
One of the European soldiers reported killed in action is Private Sydney R. Eddy, single, who had been with the army since May. 1942.’ His home address was 131' Roebuck road, Gisborne. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 30 June 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21694, 21 APRIL 1945, PAGE 4

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2237198
Sources Used

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  p.28 AWMM
• Puttick, E. (1960). 25 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM