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T Force

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 and was part of the 34th Battalion, 8th Brigade. “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)

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PhotoFamily nameFirst namesForceWarsService # 
156560AbernethyJames MitchellArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945439585 
99140AbernethyLeslie RogerArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945479772 
161454AitchisonThomas MartinArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945513095 
99144AitkenFrancis RandalArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945411573 
149268AlexanderCharles FrancisArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945266169 
C20339AllanCharlesArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945513142 
171455AllanHenry FrankArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945289254 
164336AllenLawrence TaylorArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945615942 
154711AllenRobert JohnArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945414446 
C82604AllwoodFrankArmyWorld War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-194534587, 542270 
135492AlsopAlfred William HenryArmyWorld War II, 1939-194571090 
163208AndersonCecil GrahamArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945589657 
163301AndersonGeorgeArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945593996 
172085AndersonGeorge DouglasArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945415603 
159338AndersonGeorge GordonArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945467034 
171151AndersonJohn Robert HartleyArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945264932 
160232AndersonWilliamArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945481918 
161679AndrewsErnest EdwardArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945521276 
99154AnnearAlbert EdwardArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945253382 
151184ArnoldBasil CuthbertArmyWorld War II, 1939-1945299143 

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