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Ronald Graeme Scott Orbell

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Unknown photographer. Capt Orbell. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira PH-ALB-259-44-7. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

Unknown photographer. Capt Orbell. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira PH-ALB-259-44-7 …

Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ronald Graeme Scott AWMM
  • Surname
    Orbell AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Roland AWMM
    • Roland Graeme Scott AWMM
  • Service number
    3/827 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1875 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Oamaru, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Medical practitioner AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Mary Gledhill Orbell (wife), Woodville, Falkirk, Scotland AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 10 July 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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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  • His son John Ronald Scott Orbell (NZ417098) was killed in WW2

    Name incorrectly listed as Roland on the Nominal Roll. Name Ronald on the Birth, Death Registration, probate and also 1935 census AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    1956 AWMM
    Age 80 AWMM
    Oamaru, Otago AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Obituary: Otago daily Times, 30 April, p. 4 includes photograph AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 554 AWMM
    • Otago Daily Times AWMM
      Obituary: Otago daily Times, 30 April, p. 4 includes photograph AWMM
    • Peat, J. T. (1914-1918) Jack Peat Album. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-ALB-259. AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 2: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI. AWMM
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM

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