Peter Reginald Woods

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Peter Reginald AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Woods AWMM

Nama Hōia

22759 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

16 Jul 1918 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 25 Sep 1940 AWMM 65 Clonburn Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Dora C. Woods (mother), 65 Clonburn Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 19 Dec 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

• Regular Military Service AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

North Africa AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

22759 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• N.Z.R.F. AWMM
• NZRF (Special Reserve) AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

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

Whakangungu ope taua

N.Z.R.F. and Papakura. Three months continuous military training at the Military School of Instruction, Narrow Neck in 1938. AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 25 Sep 1940 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM
Teamster/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private AWMM Infantry Reinforcements, Fourth Reinforcement AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

• WW2 POW - Military Hospital, Caserta, Italy AWMM
  13 Dec 1941 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Military Hospital, Caserta, Italy AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
  Admitted to 3 N.Z.G.H. 9 June 1941 AWMM
• Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of septicaemia whilst a Prisoner of War AWMM
• 1 Nov 1942 AWMM Other, WWII AWMM
  At a military hospital of Septicaemia, following fracture of right leg. AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Sergeant AWMM
21 (Auckland) Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of Reginald Delmage Pell Woods and of Dora Christina Woods (nee Madden), of Remuera, Auckland

Second degree burns face, neck and thumb (left). Burnt when primus stove exploded at Maadi Camp 2200 hours, not due his negligence or misconduct. No one else to blame. No Court of Inquiry held

Fractured right leg, whilst a POW and developed septicaemia.

Nominal Roll lists occupation as soldier, rank as C.S.M and address as Narrowneck Camp, Auckland AWMM

Matenga

11 Jan 1942 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Urupā

Caserta War Cemetery, Italy AWMM VI, C, 2. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
• St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2067742
Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• 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.
  WW2 3: WW2 525
• Cody, J. F., & New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch. (1953). 21 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z. : War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
• 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.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.