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Herbert Roland Baldwin

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New Lynn RSA exterior, 2 Veronica Street, New Lynn 0600. Image kindly provided by John Halpin 2017, CC BY John Halpin

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Herbert Roland AWMM
  • Surname
    Baldwin AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Bert Baldwin AWMM
  • Service number
    275801 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 July 1921 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 1 July 1941 AWMM Golf Road, New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Carpenter/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Joyce Patricia Baldwin (wife), 10 Highbury Street, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 9 December 1942 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    5 months training prior to embarking AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1 July 1941 AWMM
    Age 20 AWMM
    Press operator/Civilian AWMM
    Henderson, Waitakere City AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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, WWII AWMM
      Yellow Jaudice, admitted to hospital in Tunisia AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Stroke and pneumonia AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    • 13 April 2000 AWMM
      Age 78 AWMM
      AWMM
    • 13 April 2000 21Bn Assoc. Inc. Records. MS-2008-42.
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Papakura Public Cemetery, Great South Road and Settlement Road, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM RSA Section B Lot 26 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 17 & 18 April 2000 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    New Lynn RSA, 2 Veronica Street, New Lynn 0600 AWMM

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • Documents
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • 21 Battalion (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45) AWMM
      Correspondence with family AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 9: WW2 19 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 17 & 18 April 2000 AWMM
    • Veterans' club : the comradeship and memories of Auckland's 21st infantry battalion. Auckland War Memorial Museum : Auckland. Accompanies exhibition held in the Pictorial Gallery, second floor, Auckland War Memorial Museum, 24 March-21 May 2006. AWMM
    • 21 New Zealand Infantry Battalion Association Inc. Records, 1955 - 2005. Auckland War Memorial Museum. MS-2008-42. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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