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Thomas Fyfe

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Portrait from The Weekly News; 16 July 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait from The Weekly News; 16 July 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Thomas AWMM
  • Surname
    Fyfe AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI 45256 AWMM
    • WWII 9244 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    3 October 1882 AWMM Kakanui, Otago AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 6 Wolsey Street, Gore, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 Mrs H. Fyfe (mother), 15 Forster Street, Belleknowes. Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
    • WW2 Mrs Vera Constance Fyfe (wife), 6 Wolsey Street, Gore, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 2 May 1940 AWMM Married/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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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
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Thomas Fyfe was the son of William Henderson Fyfe and Harriet Darton Fyfe; husband of Vera Constance Fyfe, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    20 May 1941 AWMM
    Age 48 AWMM
    Crete, Greece AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece AWMM 15. B. 3. AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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19 April 2022Ian BanksTaumarunui New ZealandResearcher

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