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By Airey Neave

By Ewen Southby-Tailyour, Andre Hue

Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 21060" data-attributes="member: 1"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SURNAME</li> </ul> McCarthy <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">FORENAME</li> </ul> John Joseph <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">UNIT</li> </ul> New Zealand Coastwatchers <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RANK</li> </ul> Corporal <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NUMBER</li> </ul> 436897 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DATE OF DEATH</li> </ul> 15th October 1942 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AGE</li> </ul> 22 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GRAVESITE</li> </ul> Bourail Memorial,New Caledonia Panel 1 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</li> </ul> son of John Joseph and Nancy McCarthy,Point Chevalier,Auckland,New Zealand NZ Post and Telegraph Department award Mention in Despatches POW September 1942 Abemama,Gilbert Islands executed by Japanese Betio,Tarawa,Gilbert Islands rank awarded posthumous (8th Brigade Group,Corps of Signals) </blockquote>