Patrick William Keehan

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Patrick William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Keehan AWMM

Nama Hōia

19659 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

4 Aug 1918 AWMM
New Zealand AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 04 Jul 1941 AWMM C/o Mr G. Morfell, Howick Road, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Patrick Francis Keehan (father), Beach Road, Kaikoura, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 13 Sep 1941 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

19659 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1939-1945 Star AWMM
• Africa Star AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 04 Jul 1941 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM
General labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 13 Sep 1941 AWMM
HMT 31 AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Infantry Brigade AWMM

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

• WW2
  28 Jun 1942 AWMM
  20 Battalion AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
  Jan 1944 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
  Oct 1944 AWMM
• WW2
  28 Jun 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 9 inch AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Black AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
  1942 fracture right thigh as a POW AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW2 18 Aug 1945 AWMM
Gd 3 P Discharged M/U AWMM
Private AWMM
20 Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of Margaret Mary Keehan and Patrick Francis Keehan

Two sons, brothers, Patrick William Keehan (19659) and Bernard John Keehan (32075) served in WW2 and both were Prisoners of War.

Entered the service at Burnham Camp, July 1941.

Served in New Zealand for 150 days; total service overseas 4 years 18 days. AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Roll of Honour. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1942, Page 3
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19420715.2.15&srpos
  Further Reference
• N.Z.E.F. Casualties. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 56, 3 September 1942, Page II
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19420903.2.17.1&srpos
  Further Reference
• N.Z.E.F. LIST. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1945, Page 4
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19450518.2.18.3&srpos
  Further Reference
• 'Untitled' Kaikoura Star, 31 January 1944
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KAIST19440131.2.21
  Further Reference
• 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
• Pringle, D., & Glue, W. (1957). 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210222122055/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-20Ba.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Pringle, D., & Glue, W. (1957). 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 5: WW2 114
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.