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Thomas Broome

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Nominal Roll Vol 3 (Roll 67), Page: 14 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 3 (Roll 67), Page: 14 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Thomas AWMM
  • Surname
    Broome AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    49142 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    23 July 1893 AWMM Stafford, England AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
    Cleaner/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Jane Broome (mother), 144 Corporation Street, Stratford, England AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 12 June 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 6 March 1917 AWMM
      Age 23 AWMM
      Farm hand/Civilian AWMM
    • WW2 19 October 1942 AWMM
      Age 48 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
    • Height, Unknown Period AWMM
      5 foot 7.5 inches AWMM
    • Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
      149 pounds AWMM
    • Other, Unknown Period AWMM
      tattoo, small dot on left hand near thumb AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Thomas and Jane Broome.

    Husband of Lily Georgina Broome (neeTee), two sons and two daughters.

    He attested that he had been living in New Zealand for 3 years before enlistment, and named an uncle also living in Tongio, Hawkes Bay.

    After the war he lived with his family lived at Arohena, New Zealand and later on Golf Road, Epsom, Auckland

    On the 19 October 1942 Thomas Broome joined the Royal New Zealand Airforce as a fitter's labourer and was discharged after 2 years and 343 days on medical grounds 27 September 1945. He was then directed by the District Manpower Officer to Seabrook Fowlds Ltd., Motor Assembly Park at Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    5 July 1949 AWMM
    Age 55 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Scattered Ashes AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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