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 # | |
| 171097 |  | Barker | William Verdun | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 262536 | | |
| 153812 | | Berry | Charles | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 391203 | | |
| C17764 | | Berryman | Dennis Gordon | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 271610 | | |
| 162725 | | Bennett | Ernest John | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 565510 | | |
| 161720 | | Berryman | George Arthur | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 522420 | | |
| 99198 | | Beilby | Gordon Thomas | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 496452 | | |
| 177728 | | Becker | James | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 552330 | | |
| 99193 | | Beachen | John Edward | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 505252 | | |
| 99206 | | Bertrand | John Phillipe Ersene | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 546026 | | |
| 99208 | | Best | Keith William | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 466161 | | |
| 99201 | | Bennet | Leslie Frederick | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 171455 | | |
| C73212 | | Bennetts | Reginald Ralph Selby | Army | World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945 | 15471, 480114 | | |
| 147503 | | Beveridge | Robert Skelton | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 230415 | | |
| 99212 | | Beveridge | Roland Arthur | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 562033 | | |
| 99200 | | Belsham | Tama Hika Gordon | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 10929 | | |
| 99213 | | Beveridge | Walter | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 565333 | | |
| 157817 | | Bell | William Kitchener | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 450130 | | |
| 99209 | | Bestic | William Seddon | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 574362 | | |
| 162781 | | Bishop | Alfred Webberburn | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 56857 | | |
| 99218 | | Billington | Edward | Army | World War II, 1939-1945 | 553063 | | |
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