Philip Symons

Forenames

Philip AWMM

Surname

Symons AWMM

Service number

13196 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 Care of Mrs. E.J. Dickson, Aparima AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mr. Josiah Symons, Scotts Gap, Southland (father) AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 1940-1941 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

13196 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 1940-1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.462 Farmer's labourer/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.462

Embarkation details

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.462 6th Field Ambulance, N.Z. Medical Corps 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.462 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  13 Dec 1941 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 148, Verona, Italy AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
• 3 Mar 1945 AWMM Other, WWII AWMM
  Dysentery. AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
New Zealand Medical Corps, 6 Field Ambulance AWMM

Death

3 Mar 1945 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Berlin, Germany AWMM 11. A. 9. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2761166
  Sources Used
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/3955186
  Further Reference
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/4560909
  Further Reference

References

• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.462
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Green, A. T., Jamieson, H. R., Jamieson, Vera, and Hobbs, Margaret. Tell Our Story. World War II in North Africa : History of the New Zealand 6th Field Ambulance, 14 June 1942 to 6 October 1943. Wellington [N.Z.]: Margaret Hobbs, 1999. Print.
• Deaths While Prisoner of War - Navy, Army, Air Force and Civilians [WW2 NZ POW Deaths], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152).
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Prisoners of War Enquiry Office. (1941–1944). The New Zealand prisoner of war pamphlet: Official pamphlet of the Prisoners of War Enquiry Office of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Wellington, New Zealand.
  No. 18, March 1944, p.12
• McKinney, J. (1952). Medical units of 2NZEF in Middle East and Italy. Wellington, N.Z.: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.