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Lestock Ryvers Baigent

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Lestock Ryvers AWMM
  • Surname
    Baigent AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Stock AWMM
  • Service number
    2074 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    23 November 1906 AWMM Wakefield, Nelson AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs M.V. Baigent (wife), 40 Seatoun Heights Road, Seatoun, Wellington AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    Soldier/Military AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      Crete, Greece AWMM
      25 May 1941 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Crete List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
      Crete, Greece List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
    • WW2
      Germany, Europe 2NZEF, Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. N.Z. 1945.
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number
    WWII 23926 AWMM

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
    Wounded: 9 April 1945 AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Educated at Nelson College.

    Funeral service held at the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Grey St, Hamilton.

    Rank listed as Warrant Officer Class 1 in the List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    6 April 1998 AWMM
    Age 91 AWMM
    Richmond, Nelson AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Hamilton Park Cemetery, Oak Lawn, 395 Morrinsville Road, Newstead, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM OAK-02-15 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 6 April 1998 AWMM
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  • Memorial reference

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • 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
      WW2 1: WW2 12 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: 6 April 1998 AWMM
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM

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