Douglas
Neil
Tiffen
Born in New Zealand
Ancestors 
Brother of
Henry Montieth Tiffen J. P. and Frederick Hugh Tiffen
Husband of
Mathena Ann (Vipond) Tiffen
— married
[date unknown] in England
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 84
in New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Aug 2015
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Biography
Douglas was born in 1905. He was the son of Henry Tiffen and Isabella Campbell.[1]
Douglas Neil Tiffen served in the NZ Army during World War 2( Service number 6734) . A sheep farmer in civilian life, he gave his next of kin as Mrs. H.E. Tiffen, of Otane (mother) He was a Private with Headquarters, 22nd (Wellington) Battalion of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon [2]
He was captured in Crete Greece on 14 July 1941 and held as a Prisoner of War [3]
PRISONER IN GERMANY SOLDIER PRESUMED KILLED Advice has been received in Gisborne that Private Douglas Neil Tiffen, of Hawke’s Bay, who was previously reported missing and subsequently was presumed by a court ot inquiry to have been killed in action, is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Private Tiffen’s wife, who is in England, is understood to have received advice to that effect and has communicated it to relatives in this district.[4]
He married Mathena Ann Vipond in England
He passed away in 1990.[5]
Sources
- ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages Online", [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), Birth Registration of Douglas Neal Tiffen, child of Isabella Katherine and Henry Ernest; citing Registration Number 1905/2214.
- ↑ Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
- ↑ - List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
- ↑ Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20563, 17 September 1941
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
- NZ Death registration 1990/32854
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