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Albert Victor Sing

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  • Service number
    WWI 13/3077 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Victor Albert Sing AWMM
    • Alb AWMM
    • Singe AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Group portrait including Victor Albert Sing (Singe) and Isobel Singe (left hand couple). Image kindly provided by Felicity Semmiens (May 2017). Image has no known copyright restrictions.

Group portrait including Victor Albert Sing (Singe) and Isobel Singe (left hand couple). Image kindl …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Albert Victor AWMM
  • Surname
    Sing AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Victor Albert Sing AWMM
    • Alb AWMM
    • Singe AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 13/3077 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    9 May 1892 AWMM Whanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 1915 AWMM 2 Browning Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mrs Francis Smith (mother), 2 Browning Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single/WWI AWMM

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
    WW1 16 November 1915 AWMM
    Age 23 AWMM
    Labourer/Civilian AWMM
    Trentham, Upper Hutt AWMM
  • 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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  • Four brothers served in WW1 Herbert Stanley Sing (12/1097), Albert Victor Sing (13/3077), Robert Francis (12/1096), Arthur Percy Sing (13/3078)

    Listed on nominal roll as Albert Victor and at Archives New Zealand as SING, Albert Victor - WW1 13/3077 - Army.

    Felicity Semmiens (nee Singe) has provided the following rememberance of her Grandfather Albert Victor: "My brother Vic Stuart Singe was the first-born grandchild and named after Albert Victor, he fondly recalls sitting on grandad's knee in the car and being allowed to toot the horn as much as he liked. Apparently my grandfather was awaiting the birth of me (first bom girl) because there had not been a girl born for the past two generations. The (5) Sing boys being William b.1890, Albert Victor b. 1892, Robert Francis b.1893, Herbert Stanley b!l894, and Arthur Percy b. 1895. The next generation of (3) boys all born to Albert Victor were Donald, Mervyn and Miles." (May 2017).

    Of Chinese descent. AWMM
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    22 August 1950 AWMM
    Age 58 AWMM
    Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
  • 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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  • I'm enjoying learning about you Victor, I've always been interested in the story behind this man photographed in uniform. I respect your bravery and wish more of your legacy was left behind for us to unfold.
    Public - Aingie - Direct descendant - 21 June 2017
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R7817705
    Further Reference
  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      23: 9 AWMM
    • Kennedy, A. (2015). Chinese Anzacs : Australians of Chinese descent in the defence forces 1885-1919 (revised to include New Zealand-born Chinese of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1919) (2nd ed). Wellington: New Zealand Chinese Association. 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. 3: Includes portrait AWMM

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18 January 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
21 June 2017Aingie new zealandDirect descendant
20 February 2017EllaAucklandResearcher

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