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Doris Field Arrowsmith

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Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 21 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 21 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Doris Field AWMM
  • Surname
    Arrowsmith AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Gibbons AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/201 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    20 March 1889 AWMM AWMM
    New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 3 December 1915 AWMM 42 Britannia Street, Petone, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Esther Arrowsmith (mother), 42 Britannia Street, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 4 December 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 3 December 1915 AWMM Nurse AWMM
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  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Daughter of Esther Arrowsmith and Thomas Adolph Arrowsmith.

    Wife of Bertram Gibbons.

    Arrowsmith trained at Wellington Hospital and became a Registered Nurse in 1914. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    17 July 1979 Public Source
  • Date of death
    17 July 1979 Public - elli - 24 January 2015 - Archives NZ Wellington - CWGC (Non-war grave card index)
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
    Auckland Public - elli - 24 January 2015 - Archives NZ Wellington - CWGC (Non-war grave card index)
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Waikumete Services Public - elli - 24 January 2015 - Archives NZ Wellington - CWGC (Non-war grave card index)
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 21 AWMM
    • Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett. AWMM
    • McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb. AWMM

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