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Patricia Emily Greenfield-Brown

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Patricia Emily AWMM
  • Surname
    Greenfield-Brown AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Brown AWMM
  • Service number
    49572 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 December 1914 AWMM Lower Hutt, Wellington AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Pre 7 October 1941 AWMM 12 Boulcott Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 12 Boulcott Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Physiotherapist/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs R. Greenfield-Brown (mother), 12 Boulcott Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs R. Greenfield-Brown (mother), 12 Boulcott Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1936 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 7 October 1941 AWMM
    Age 26 AWMM
    Masseuse/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
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Was treated - possibly for illness - at 2 New Zealand General Hospital in July and August 1943. AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Cancer AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Enlisted and embarked as Staff Nurse. The rank was abolished shortly afterwards and all Staff Nurses became Sisters.

    Sister Greenfield-Brown was a member of the physiotherapy staff on hospital ship for voyages 3-6. And on physiotherapy staff of 2 General Hospital.

    Listed under letter B in Nominal Roll 6 and 8 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    14 July 1967 AWMM
    Age 52 AWMM
    United Kingdom, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: Evening Post/Dominion July 1967 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

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Sources

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  • External links
    New Zealand Military Nursing: New Zealand Army Nursing Service - Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
    http://www.nzans.org/index.htm
    Further Reference
  • References
    • HMNZHS [Her Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship] Maunganui - Staff - Embarkation rolls, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADQZ 18903 WAII4/21/51 (R20934261). AWMM
      Correspondence with family AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 6: WW2 7 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 8 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1942 to 30th June, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 8: WW2 7 AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
      Kendall, S. & Corbett, D. (1990). p. 157 AWMM
    • The Evening Post AWMM
      Death Notice: Evening Post/Dominion July 1967 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. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 8 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1942 to 30th June, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.7 AWMM
    • HMNZHS [Her Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship] Maunganui - Staff - Embarkation rolls, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADQZ 18903 WAII4/21/51 (R20934261). AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074) AWMM

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