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Frank Bennett

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Frank AWMM
  • Surname
    Bennett AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    NZ4314276 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Paeroa, Hauraki District AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • 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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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Francis and Hettie Bennett of Paeroa; husband of Norah AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    22 July 2004 AWMM
    Waihi, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, July 2004 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Nawww my poppa after all these years I finally find your information about you I miss you so much I think about you everyday I wish you were still here I always looked up to you you were my favourite poppa I'm sorry I couldn't go to your funeral we were in the south island I really wish I had gotten to say goodbye to you my poppa I find it hard everyday without you miss you heaps and love you poppa RIP
    Public - Korrine - Other relative - 22 December 2016
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, July 2004 AWMM

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22 December 2016KorrineAuckland New zealandOther relative

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