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 #
C20660	Batt	Leslie George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	61235
C134422	Battman	Cyril Newman	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2358
C127999	Batty	James Ernest	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7587
C143641	Batty	Frank	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22519
178789	Baucke	Harold Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	44676
C143642	Bavister	Jack	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21490
C134428	Baxter	Joseph Alexander	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	5094
C18006	Baxter	Evan John	Navy	World War II, 1939-1945
146052	Baxter	Harold Herbert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	18386
C103553	Baxter	William James	Army	World War I, 1914-1918	30142
C134431	Baxter	Norval Roderick	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2159
122849	Bayley	Colin Bertram	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	44709
C134349	Bayliss	Albert Charles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9063
C36398	Bayly	Boyd William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7485
C134354	Baynes	Colin Astor	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4119
C143652	Beacham	William Albert	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	23275
C18014	Beale	Heathcote Huia Butler	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945	NZ41465, 41465
C143653	Beamsley	William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21070
122856	Bear	Leslie Cyril	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	63476
117310	Bear	Winton Graham	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11758
C136295	Beasley	John Noble	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	23259
117312	Beasley	Robert Michael	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	28818
C134358	Beaton	Malcolm John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9724
144911	Beatson	Robert Andrew	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15331
163604	Beattie	Robert Buchanan	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	60372
117317	Beattie	Noel Dudley	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	25013
C134359	Beauchamp	Robinson William Alfred	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7914
126536	Beauchamp	Selwyn Robert Guy	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	47073
90121	Beauchamp	John Proctor	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	32637
C122145	Beaumont	George Maurice	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	20027
C132854	Beazley	Leonard	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2153
C143791	Becher	Thomas Joseph	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22631
145136	Beck	Douglas McLeod	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15876
117322	Beck	Leslie Gordon	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29489
C129548	Beckett	Douglas Waine	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29490
C122230	Bedding	Thomas Geoffrey	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	5517
117325	Bedingfield	Victor Norman	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	37134
145032	Bee	William George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15640
145064	Bee	James Stoddart	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	15696
C128027	Beebe	Geoffrey Langton	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22912
122869	Beech	Max Oswald	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	35166
C134362	Beechey	Alastair	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	1938
126541	Beedle	Henry Maxwell	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	46230
C130674	Beehre	Raymond Arthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	7570
C134365	Beel	Charles Sidney	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	8267
C143799	Beel	Thomas Francis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11126
C143800	Beel	William Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11445
C134370	Begg	Ian William John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2413
88202	Begley	Peter John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	437596
84040	Behague	William Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	67163
C127734	Belcher	Claude William	Air Force	World War II, 1939-1945
C120952	Belcher	Thomas Harold	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36719
C130508	Belfield	John Harold Patrick	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	9304
164653	Bell	Alexander	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	61903
C33456	Bell	Alfred Chessar	Army	World War I, 1914-1918	63544
C143813	Bell	Alfred Thomas	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	6891
C143811	Bell	Alfred Fulford	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	6399
156332	Bell	Allan Thomas	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	43774
C134376	Bell	Athol Gifford	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4571
C143892	Bell	Walter Aubin	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22199
C139825	Bell	Kenneth Callaway	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29693
163617	Bell	Donald	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	60398
143877	Bell	Frank Wilson	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	11913
C133600	Bell	Gordon George	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	4203
C139826	Bell	William Gordon	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	23886
C143886	Bell	John Graham	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	31539
C139827	Bell	William Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	25019
148799	Bell	Ian Scott	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	25485
C143887	Bell	John Leslie	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21728
165738	Bell	Maurice Percharde	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	63305
151945	Bell	Robert William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	32744
C139828	Bell	William Thirwall	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	37278
C1012	Bellamy	William Joseph	Army	World War I, 1914-1918	24/1255
117338	Bellis	Raymond Charles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	14200
117340	Bellwood	James Charles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12650
144698	Benge	George Arthur	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	14683
117347	Benjes	John Frederick	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	24425
C119944	Bennett	Albert Te Auheke	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	65444
153236	Bennett	Arthur John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	37483
C32961	Bennett	Charles Daniel	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	18513
152812	Bennett	Edwin Thomas	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	36108
153131	Bennett	Thomas Ferdinand	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	37249
C128767	Bennett	George Ranginohoora	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	6123
C144572	Bennett	Gordon Greely Rahiri	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	21344
144009	Bennett	Walter Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	12401
C139829	Bennett	John Henry	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	23887
C134535	Bennett	Horace William	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	1552
152112	Bennett	James	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	33366
C134540	Bennison	Avery Francis	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	5353
126559	Bentley	Sydney Charles	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	67187
C18699	Bentley	Harold Cornelius	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	23888
C139830	Bentley	David Dalziel	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	29491
C142139	Bentley	Edward John	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	2801
C144581	Bercich	Ronald Ivan Selwyn	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	22067
153532	Berg	Leonard James Hunter	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	38104
117359	Berg	Rupert Stidolph	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	34352
C120927	Berghan	Henery	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	5710
C120928	Berghan	Joseph	Army	World War II, 1939-1945	6098
C35546	Berland	Prosper Raine	Army	South African War, 1899-1902	101
C18056	Bernard	Robert Ian	Army	Territorial Military Service, World War II, 1939-1945

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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.