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Grenville Vincent Binet

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Grenville Vincent AWMM
  • Surname
    Binet AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Bin AWMM
  • Service number
    3767 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Methodist, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    22 December 1916 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Pre 1940 AWMM 43 Trafalgar Street, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 43 Trafalgar Street, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Medical and surgical rep/Civilian AWMM
    Prosthetist for the Disabled Servicemen's Rehabilitation League, later to become Auckland manager. AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mr V. Le C. Binet (father), Methodist Parsonage, Otorohanga, South Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mr V. Le C. Binet (father), Methodist Parsonage, Otorohanga, South Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Single AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1941 Crete AWMM
    • Greece AWMM
    • North Africa AWMM
    • Italy AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    3767 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Binet was sent to University in California to study Prosthetics. He is a member of R.S.A Eden-Roskill and an Honourary member of Auckland War Amputee's Association. 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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    • 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 18 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 11 AWMM

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