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Althea Maria Goldsmith

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Althea Maria AWMM
  • Surname
    Goldsmith AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Goldsmith-Imlah AWMM
  • Service number
    42291 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    20 May 1912 WWII NZANS Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 1941 AWMM Edgecumbe, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr W. Goldsmith (father), Edgecumbe, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown 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
    1939 WWII NZANS Roll
    Place of Nursing training and date of qualification / registration AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1941 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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    Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
    Died from an aneurysm AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Wife of Walter Imlah

    Trained at Wellington Hospital (1939).

    Served overseas in 3 NZ General Hospital, Middle East; 3 NZ General Hospital, Italy, 1 NZ Casualty Clearing Station.

    After the war she joined the Colonial Nursing Service. It was in Uganda that she met and later married (23 January 1960) her husband, Walter Imlah. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    28 June 1967 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Burnside Burial Ground, Rathven, Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland AWMM NEB 114/115 AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
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Memorials

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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://web.archive.org/web/20220126041404/https://www.nzans.org/index.htm
    Further Reference
  • References
    • 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 132 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
      Imlah, Walter Mackay. Autobiography of Walter Mackay Imlah. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2000/13. 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
    • 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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