T Force - Tonga Force
![Camp for members of the Tonga Defence Force of 2nd NZEF, in Tonga. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: PA1-f-107-12-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.]()
Camp for members of the Tonga Defence Force of 2nd NZEF, in Tonga. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: PA1-f-107-12-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
The 3NZ Division were garrisoned throughout the Pacific during World War II including in Fiji, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Tonga.
The creation of T Force was to support the training of the Tongan Defence Force. “As with Fiji, New Zealand undertook to train and direct the Tongan Defence Force and to provide essential supplies and war equipment, the cost of which was originally met by the Tongan Government's provision of £20,000 a year from its slender resources, though financial changes later became necessary.” (Gillespie, 1952, p. 292)
These records were updated from the Nominals roll held at Archives New Zealand.
Resources
- Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Nominal rolls - Disembarkation T-force [WW2 Tonga Force Disembarkation Roll], Archives NZ, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1428 (R22440224)
Results
| Photo | Force | Wars | Service # | |
| 156560 |  | Abernethy | James Mitchell | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 439585 | | |
| 99140 | | Abernethy | Leslie Roger | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 479772 | | |
| 161454 | | Aitchison | Thomas Martin | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 513095 | | |
| 99144 | | Aitken | Francis Randal | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 411573 | | |
| 149268 | | Alexander | Charles Francis | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 266169 | | |
| C20339 | | Allan | Charles | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 513142 | | |
| 171455 | | Allan | Henry Frank | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 289254 | | |
| 164336 | | Allen | Lawrence Taylor | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 615942 | | |
| 154711 | | Allen | Robert John | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 414446 | | |
| C82604 | | Allwood | Frank | Army | World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945 | 34587, 542270 | | |
| 135492 | | Alsop | Alfred William Henry | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 71090 | | |
| 163208 | | Anderson | Cecil Graham | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 589657 | | |
| 163301 | | Anderson | George | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 593996 | | |
| 172085 | | Anderson | George Douglas | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 415603 | | |
| 159338 | | Anderson | George Gordon | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 467034 | | |
| 171151 | | Anderson | John Robert Hartley | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 264932 | | |
| 160232 | | Anderson | William | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 481918 | | |
| 161679 | | Andrews | Ernest Edward | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 521276 | | |
| 99154 | | Annear | Albert Edward | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 253382 | | |
| 151184 | | Arnold | Basil Cuthbert | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 299143 | | |
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