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James Alfred Garner

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Portrait (kindly provided by family) - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait (kindly provided by family) - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    James Alfred AWMM
  • Surname
    Garner AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Jim AWMM
  • Service number
    9130 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    8 November 1903 AWMM Plaistow, Essex AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 6 October 1939 AWMM 2 Ripon Street, Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Juanita Ingeborg Garner (wife), 2 Rippon Street, Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 17 January 1940 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Perontinitus, admitted Hospital, Helwan. AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Cancer AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • A regular Soldier, he attained rank of Corporal 2/3/1953 - 2/1/1961

    James's ashes are interred with his father, James Garner, in the Military Section of the cemetery. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    23 April 1987 AWMM
    Age 84 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Lyttelton Cemetery, Reserve Terrace, Lyttelton, New Zealand AWMM RSA Section AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Christchurch Star AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.63 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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