Henry Anthony Rex

Forenames

Henry Anthony AWMM

Surname

Rex AWMM

Also known as

Tony AWMM

Service number

WWII 26278 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

• WW2 Pre 1940-1941 AWMM 16 Balfour Rd., Parnell, Auckland AWMM
• WW2 Pre 1944 AWMM 16 Balfour Rd., Parnell, Auckland AWMM

Next of kin

• WW2 Mrs. F.J. Rex, Murray's Bay, Post-office, Auckland (mother) AWMM
• WW2 Mrs. M.G.A. Rex, 195 Ponsonby Rd., Auckland (w) AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 1940-1941 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM
• Pre 1944 AWMM Married/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 26278 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Entertainment Unit (Kiwi Concert Party) AWMM

Enlistment

• WW2 1940-1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.399 singer/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.399
• WW2 1944 2NZEF Nom. Roll 13, p.104 Singing teacher 2NZEF Nom. Roll 13, p.104

Embarkation details

• WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.399 21 (Auckland) Infantry Battalion 2NZEF Nom. Roll 3, p.399 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Third Echelon AWMM
• WW2 Sergeant 2NZEF Nom. Roll 13, p.104 Headquarters, 2nd N.Z. Division 2NZEF Nom. Roll 13, p.104 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Member of Kiwi Concert Party during WW2 (tenor and concert master); mainly performed in Middle East - North Africa and on troop ships

Photographer, documented the Kiwi Concert Party AWMM

Related objects

External links

• A recording of Tony Rex singing in a troop concert can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue.. U-series. Broadcasting Unit - Concert for men Pt. 1-11 11036.
  https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=208778
  Further Reference
• Recordings of Tony Rex singing in a troop concert can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue.. U-series. Musical recital on troop ship Pts 1-3 11091.
  https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/11091
  Further Reference
• A recording of Tony Rex singing in a troop concert can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue.
  https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/11582
  Further Reference
• Johnston, Sarah. (2023). “With the boys overseas: How Homefront listeners shaped the work of Aotearoa New Zealand's first battlefront broadcasters”. New Zealand Journal of Public History, 9, 33-58.
  https://phanza.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sarah-Johnston-With-the-Boys-Overseas.pdf
  Further Reference
• Ward, A. (2014, February 11; updated April 22, 2022). Musicians at War: The Kiwi Concert Party in World War II. AudioCulture
  https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/musicians-at-war-the-kiwi-concert-party-in-world-war-ii
  Further Reference
• Burns, C. (2012). Taste of Civvy Street: Heroic adventure and domesticity in the soldier concert parties of the first and second world wars. Journal of New Zealand Studies, (13), 115-127
  https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/1196/1121
  Further Reference
• Tripoli to Blenheim: Kiwi Concert Party's Revue Happy Show Last Night. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVII, Issue 222, 23 September 1943, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX19430923.2.36
  Further Reference
• Habgood, Noel, 1911-1975. Members of Kiwi Concert Party group in Syria - Photograph taken by Private Habgood. 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: DA-02640-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22851863
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22851863
  Further Reference

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.399
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.104
• Cody, J. F., & New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch. (1953). 21 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z. : War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
• Vaughan, T. (1995). Whistle as you go : the story of the Kiwi Concert Party. Auckland, N.Z.: Random House NZ.
• Burns, C. (2012). Parading kiwis : New Zealand soldier concert parties, 1916-1954 [Dissertation].
• Reed, J. E. (1944). Sing as We Go: The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party in the Middle East from 1941 to 1943. Wellington, N.Z.: Raupo Books.