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Swift

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Identity

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

Civilian life

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Enlistment
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  • 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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    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

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Death

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  • Death
    7 September 1863 AWMM
    Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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    • Alexander, J.E. (1873). Bush fighting : illustrated by remarkable actions and incidents of the Maori war in New Zealand. London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. AWMM
      Alexander, J.E. (1873). p. 71 AWMM
    • Cowan, J. (1922). The New Zealand wars : a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period. Vol. 1 1845-1865. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Print. AWMM
      Cowan, J. New Zealand Wars. Vol. 1, p. 263-264, 297 AWMM

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