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
Photo | Force | Wars | Service # | |
C134431 | | Baxter | Norval Roderick | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 2159 | | |
C20667 | | Baxter | Thomas Wallace | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 14093 | | |
C103553 | | Baxter | William James | Army | World War I, 1914-1918 | 30142 | | |
C20668 | | Baxter | William John | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 272418 | | |
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 | | |
C143655 | | Beare | Lloyd Bernard | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 31258 | | |
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 | | |
151702 | | Beattie | John | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 31802 | | |
117317 | | Beattie | Noel Dudley | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 25013 | | |
163604 | | Beattie | Robert Buchanan | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 60372 | | |
90121 | | Beauchamp | John Proctor | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 32637 | | |
C134359 | | Beauchamp | Robinson William Alfred | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 7914 | | |
126536 | | Beauchamp | Selwyn Robert Guy | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 47073 | | |
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 | | |
145064 | | Bee | James Stoddart | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 15696 | | |
145032 | | Bee | William George | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 15640 | | |
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 | | |
170376 | | Begg | James Muir Cameron | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 14086 | | |
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 | | |
C143811 | | Bell | Alfred Fulford | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 6399 | | |
C143813 | | Bell | Alfred Thomas | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 6891 | | |
156332 | | Bell | Allan Thomas | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 43774 | | |
C134376 | | Bell | Athol Gifford | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 4571 | | |
152857 | | Bell | Colin Alexander | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 36261 | | |
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 | | |
148799 | | Bell | Ian Scott | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 25485 | | |
C143886 | | Bell | John Graham | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 31539 | | |
C143887 | | Bell | John Leslie | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 21728 | | |
C139825 | | Bell | Kenneth Callaway | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 29693 | | |
165738 | | Bell | Maurice Percharde | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 63305 | | |
151945 | | Bell | Robert William | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 32744 | | |
C143892 | | Bell | Walter Aubin | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 22199 | | |
C139826 | | Bell | William Gordon | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 23886 | | |
C139827 | | Bell | William Henry | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 25019 | | |
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 | | |
122884 | | Benfell | Albert Edward | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 41029 | | |
144698 | | Benge | George Arthur | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 14683 | | |
202814 | | Benge | John Ross | Army | World War II, 1939-1945, Regular Military Service | FX 85135 | | |
117347 | | Benjes | John Frederick | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 24425 | | |
C119944 | | Bennett | Albert Te Auheke | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 65444 | | |
117350 | | Bennett | Arnold Ambrose Richard | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 37747 | | |
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 | | |
C128767 | | Bennett | George Ranginohoora | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 6123 | | |
C144572 | | Bennett | Gordon Greely Rahiri | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 21344 | | |
C134535 | | Bennett | Horace William | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 1552 | | |
152112 | | Bennett | James | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 33366 | | |
C139829 | | Bennett | John Henry | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 23887 | | |
C20759 | | Bennett | Stanley Sinclair | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 15279 | | |
153131 | | Bennett | Thomas Ferdinand | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 37249 | | |
144009 | | Bennett | Walter Henry | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 12401 | | |
C134540 | | Bennison | Avery Francis | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 5353 | | |
C144580 | | Bensemann | John Noel | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 22435 | | |
C139830 | | Bentley | David Dalziel | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 29491 | | |
C142139 | | Bentley | Edward John | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 2801 | | |
C18699 | | Bentley | Harold Cornelius | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 23888 | | |
126559 | | Bentley | Sydney Charles | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 67187 | | |
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 | | |
117360 | | Berghan | John Kaye | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 12024 | | |
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.