Noel Birdwood AWMM

Osborne AWMM

37122 AWMM

Male AWMM

14 August 1917 Public - Jenny - Other relative - 2 May 2016 - genealogy research

Palmerston North, NZ Public - Jenny - Other relative - 2 May 2016 - genealogy research

Son of Ernest William Atwood & Emma Elizabeth OSBORNE, of Palmerston North Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/noel-birdwood-osborne

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Mercia Hazel Elizabeth Osborne, of Onehunga, Auckland, Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/noel-birdwood-osborne

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Army AWMM

37122 AWMM

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

WW2 New Zealand Infantry AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Private AWMM
25 Infantry Battalion AWMM

30 Hakihea 1943 AWMM
Age 26 AWMM
Italy, Europe AWMM

Died of wounds AWMM

Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy AWMM XVI. B. 31. AWMM

REPORTED WOUNDED - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21301, 13 JANUARY 1944, PAGE 4
Osborne, Pte. Noel Birdwood. Wife: Mrs M. H. F. Osborne, Gisborne

Then REPORTED DIED FROM WOUNDS
Osborne, Private Noel Bird woo d; wife. Mrs. M. H. E. Osborne, Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 July 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21303, 15 JANUARY 1944, PAGE 4

Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2375929
Sources Used

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  p.362 AWMM
• Puttick, E. (1960). 25 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM