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Cenotaph record

Horace Coburn

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Horace AWMM
  • Surname
    Coburn AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    2353 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr H.R. Coburn, Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    South Africa Gum sorter/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • On nominal role as Private.

    Rough Riders at War by Richard Stowers. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz

    Auckland Museum Boer War display - Display item is a photo of a “section of the Auckland Fifth Contingent which left by the Mapourika”

    Not Listed in New Zealand Cemeteries Nor Bdm

    Father was named Henry Coburn. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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