Stuart Laurence Meares

Forenames

Stuart Laurence AWMM

Surname

Meares AWMM

Service number

WWII 11784 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

23 Dec 1916 Births, Deaths and Marriages

Address before enlistment

WW2 Pre 1940 AWMM 22 Bryndwr Rd., Bryndwr, Christchurch AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mr. S. Mears, 22 Bryndwr Rd., Bryndwr, Christchurch (father) AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 1940 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 11784 AWMM

Military service

19 Infantry Battalion AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.128 Clerk 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.128

Embarkation details

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.128 Headquarters, 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force Base 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.128 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  15 Jul 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-A, Gorlitz, Poland AWMM

Death

2006 Births, Deaths and Marriages

Related objects

External links

• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/3955186
  Further Reference
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/4560909
  Further Reference
• Sinclair, D. (1954). 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-19Ba.html
  Further Reference

References

• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.128
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Prisoners of War Enquiry Office. (1941–1944). The New Zealand prisoner of war pamphlet: Official pamphlet of the Prisoners of War Enquiry Office of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Wellington, New Zealand.
  No. 19, April 1944, p.10
• Sinclair, D. (1954). 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.