Prisoners of War

\"Stone walls do not a person make (much) Italy Feb 1943.\" Pen, ink and pencil drawing by JHG Alp, held as POW during WWII. — "Stone walls do not a person make (much) Italy Feb 1943." Pen, ink and pencil drawing by JHG Alp, held as POW during WWII.
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Prisoners of War

During the Second World War over 8,000 New Zealand service personnel became prisoners of war. This compares to around 500 POWs in the First World War. Online Cenotaph has utilised the following sources to update the records of close to 8,000 records:

New Zealand High Commission (Great Britain). (1917). A short sketch of the work of the New Zealand Prisoners of War Department in London and of other undertakings connected with the war. London, England: High Commissioner for New Zealand.
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.

Results

Record ID	Family name	First names	Force	Wars	Service #
C143104	Aamodt	William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	31088
117066	Abel	David	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	33843
C144428	Abel	John Alexander	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	43933
178161	Abercrombie	Nelson Donald	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12022
C120536	Aberhart	Harold Ernest	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7980
C143105	Abernethy	Charlie Mitchell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22554
C120537	Abernethy	Joseph Jollie	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7024
C120538	Abernethy	Stanley Russell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9055
144146	Abernethy	Thomas Roger	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12859
C120540	Abraham	Anthony Richard	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	1178
C80657	Abraham	Joseph	Army	World War I, 1914-1918	31924
90917	Ackroyd	Eric	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945	404045
C143110	Acland	Thomas St. Hill	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	20199
C134285	Acton-Adams	Wilden	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	1435
117072	Adam	Angus Forsyth	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15270
122669	Adam	Ian Dougles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	18655
C120546	Adams	Arthur William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	8068
C143114	Adams	Charles Howard Weldon	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	20471
C120549	Adams	David	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	3468
152960	Adams	David Maxwell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36643
C120551	Adams	Duncan Clark	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	3627
143998	Adams	Edward Charles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12354
79828	Adams	Francis Luke	Army	World War I, 1914-1918	44
144015	Adams	Frank Victor	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12423
C141905	Adams	Hugh Miles William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	19750
C143210	Adams	Hugh Miller	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22158
C143211	Adams	James Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	10314
155112	Adams	John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	42188
C143212	Adams	John Richard	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21341
90926	Adams	John Stanley	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945	412641
C17149	Adams	Kenneth Leslie	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	32194
C17150	Adams	Kenneth William Stewart	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29557
C143215	Adams	Robert Albert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	30456
164758	Adams	Robert Albert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	62004
C133974	Adams	Walter Russell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	1074
C134161	Adams	William Desmond	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4050
C134163	Adams	William Francis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9272
C17154	Adamson	David Maurice	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945	NZ415052, 415052
C134165	Adamson	Douglas Arthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2089
155248	Adamson	John Coventry Hutchison	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	42393
C133946	Adamson	Joseph Leslie	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7957
C143219	Adcock	John Cecil Neil	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	6922
C133948	Addis	Charles Gordon	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2717
117080	Addis	Harold Thomas	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	41120
C143117	Adkins	Richard Kenneth	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	30741
117085	Aekins	Robin	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	35623
C133950	Agent	Kennedy	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	5010
151936	Agnew	Alexander	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	32725
C20143	Agnew	Allan Edward Manus	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9105
C120585	Agnew	Robert Samuel	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4078
C17161	Aherne	William Robert Michael	Merchant Navy	World War II, 1939-1945
117089	Ahradsen	Kenneth Ahrad	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	30867
C139149	Aickin	George Winter	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	65675
117090	Aickin	Herbert Leslie	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9434
288756	Aickin	Neville Mack	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945	NZ411354, 411354
C120592	Aiken	Aubrey Martin George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11977
117091	Aiken	Francis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	13694
C131508	Ainge	William David	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4423
122682	Ainsworth	Neville Robert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	14594
C133957	Airey	Edward	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9653
135461	Aitchison	Hugh Douglas	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36522
164631	Aitchison	James	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	61887
C133960	Aitken	Alan Arbuckle	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9765
158226	Aitken	Albert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	454118
165686	Aitken	Andrew Dow	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	63227
160019	Aitken	Andrew Russell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	47859
152081	Aitken	Charles Arthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	33229
C143126	Aitken	Harry George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11520
143890	Aitken	Herbert Lewis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11969
145836	Aitken	Robert Alexander	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	17712
150938	Aitken	Robert Selwyn	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29481
148474	Aitken	Thomas Bruce	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	24871
C133964	Aitken	William Edwards	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4766
C120588	Aker	George Leyon Randall	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	43440
C20304	Akuira	Wiremu Rangi	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	16248
C133966	Albon	Kenneth	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4148
C133967	Alborough	Maurice Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7194
126440	Albrey	Louis George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	47993
C141907	Alcock	William Lewis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11842
C17174	Alder	Edwin Peter	Navy	World War II, 1939-1945	A/1874
C133978	Aldersley	William Arthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2075
152899	Alderton	Albert Victor James	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36410
C133980	Alderton	Thomas Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2709
C143137	Aldridge	John Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	10574
150520	Alexander	Donald Jack	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	28817
C132202	Alexander	Douglas James McArthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	60386
117105	Alexander	Edmund Huia	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	28896
C133987	Alexander	Hubert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4425
145094	Alexander	Ian	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15766
C143140	Alexander	Leslie Christopher	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	10907
C141476	Alexander	Ralph Goddard	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36878
144729	Alexander	Ronald William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	14784
122694	Alford	James	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	62488
C143142	Algie	Charles Fredrick	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21185
117108	Algie	Stephen Wakeling	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	33388
144372	Allan	Alexander William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	13484
146473	Allan	Arthur William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	19647
C138781	Allan	John McAulay	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	62487
122695	Allan	Leicester Bruce	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	13668
143833	Allan	Walter Deryck	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11773

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The development of the Online Cenotaph is an ongoing process; updates, new images and records are added weekly. In some cases, records have yet to be confirmed by Museum staff, and there could be mistakes or omissions in the information provided.