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Agatha Keet Murdoch

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Agatha Keet AWMM
  • Surname
    Murdoch AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Scottie AWMM
    • Keat AWMM
  • Service number
    815054 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    20 July 1910 AWMM Glasgow, Scotland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 29 March 1943 AWMM 113 Calcutta Street, Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Midwife, Sister and Matron/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr W. Murdoch (father), 113 Calcutta Street, Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 10 July 1943 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 29 March 1943 AWMM
    Age 32 AWMM
    VAD Nurse/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • 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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  • Medical notes
    Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
    Heart Disease AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Born 154 St John Street, Glasgow, Scotland

    Name listed as Keet on the Nominal Roll and as Keat in the Book of Commemoration AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    17 August 1997 AWMM
    Age 87 AWMM
    Tauranga, Bay of Plenty AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated at Karori Crematorium, Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM Plot 476 KP2 AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
      Correspondence with family AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 140 AWMM
    • Dominion Post AWMM
      Death notice: 20 August 1997 AWMM
    • Bay of Plenty Times AWMM
      Death notice: 19 August 1997 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: 19 August 1997 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
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.140 AWMM
    • 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.71 AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074) AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Middle East - Drafts - Strength Return [and Embarkation Rolls] (1943-1945). Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R22502075). AWMM

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