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Edith Elizabeth Marie Furkert

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  • Service number
  • Also known as
    • Marie Power-Collins AWMM
    • Edith Elizabeth Marie Furkett AWMM
    • Maria Rogers AWMM
    • Marie Rogers AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Air Force AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Marie in her flying leathers after winning the Charles Kingsford Smith Trophy.

Marie Power-Collins in November 1933, age 19.

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Edith Elizabeth Marie AWMM
  • Surname
    Furkert AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Marie Power-Collins AWMM
    • Edith Elizabeth Marie Furkett AWMM
    • Maria Rogers AWMM
    • Marie Rogers AWMM
  • Service number
  • Gender
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    20 December 1913 Births, Deaths and Marriages
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Wellington AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

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
    Pilot AWMM
  • Enlistment
  • 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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  • Marie left the Air Transport Auxiliary in January 1944 and instead joined the clerical staff of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, which the ATA was apart of.

    Last name incorrectly recorded as Furkett. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    12 August 1987 Probate
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Feilding Cemetery Feilding New Zealand AWMM Block 4, Row 214, Plot 17 AWMM
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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01 August 2021Pamela ElizabethWellingtonResearcher

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