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Percy Simeon Shearman

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  • Service number
    • WWI 16/1385 AWMM
    • WWI 16/1385a AWMM
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    Army AWMM
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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percy Simeon AWMM
  • Surname
    Shearman AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI 16/1385 AWMM
    • WWI 16/1385a AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
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  • Birth
    8 March 1890 AWMM Manganui, Waikato AWMM
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    WW1 Mrs S. Shearman (mother), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 16/1385 AWMM
    • WWI 16/1385a AWMM
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  • Serial Number appears as 16/1385 in Nominal Rolls, as 16/1385A in Archives New Zealand

    Served as an interpreter for the transfer of Cook Islanders to Egypt. Embarked for Egypt on HMT Canberra, and arrived in Alexandria in August 1918, he was posted to the Rarotongan compay as the Company medical orderly. Embarked for Australia per SS Malta and attached for duty in quarantine in Fremantle Australia. He worked as a medical attendant to care and act as an interpreter for 16 soldiers including 13 rarotongans. Discharged in July 1919, and returned to Rarotonga, where he was active in the Cook Islands RSA in the mid 1920s.

    Son of Warrant Officer Ronald Leslie Nooroa Shearman who served in the RNZAF during WWII. AWMM
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Death

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    21 February 1953 AWMM
    Whanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui AWMM
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    Mount View Cemetery, Marton Cemetery, Marton, Rangitikei District, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand AWMM
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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R7816367
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      25: 4 AWMM
    • Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group. AWMM
      p. 202 AWMM
    • This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project AWMM

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