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Cenotaph record

Donald Logan

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Donald AWMM
  • Surname
    Logan AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Bluey AWMM
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

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
    Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
    Cancer AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • One of 16 children, he was born in Ireland and raised in the Waikato. He left school and became an apprentice jockey. When war started, he was manpowered into a Box factory, which he hated. He enlisted as soon as he could and went overseas to Italy.

    He spent his 21st birthday in Military prison after sorting out a lippy officer.

    After the war, he returned to NZ and eventually married. This marriage produced three daughters: Karen, Tracey and Adrienne. He had three granddaughters.

    Bluey was an Armoury Information Volunteer in the Auckland War Memorial Museum from 1996 until his death in 2002. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    29 June 2002 AWMM
    Age 79 AWMM
    Te Atatu, Auckland AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
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Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    21 Battalion (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45) AWMM
    Funeral order of service includes a portrait AWMM

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