Brief Life History of Olga
When Olga Coles was born on 11 June 1907, in New Zealand, her father, Charles Roby Coles, was 40 and her mother, Amalia Elisabeth Thodsen, was 35. She married Arthur Charles Clark in 1928, in New Zealand. She died in 1997, in her hometown, at the age of 90, and was buried in New Zealand.
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Sources (3)
- Birth Index for Olga Coles
- Electoral Roll for Arthur Charles Clark and Olga Coles
- Legacy NFS Source: Olga Coles - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Olga Coles
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World Events (8)
1914
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
1939
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
English (southern): variant of Cole , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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