Walter Prictor

Forenames

Walter AWMM

Surname

Prictor AWMM

Also known as

Wally AWMM

Service number

WWII 31932 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1 Mar 1913 AWMM

Address before enlistment

• WW2 1940-1941 AWMM 39 Forfar Street, Clyde Hill, Dunedin AWMM
• WW2 1944 AWMM 39 Forfar Street, Clyde Hill, Dunedin AWMM

Post war occupation

Store manager/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

• WW2 Mrs. S. Prictor(mother), 39 Forfar Street, Clyde Hill, Dunedin AWMM
• WW2 Mrs. S. Prictor(mother), 39 Forfar Street, Clyde Hill, Dunedin AWMM

Relationship status

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

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 31932 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Entertainment Unit (Kiwi Concert Party) AWMM

Medals and Awards

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
  Mentioned in Despatches for distinguished service, Italy, 31 March and 1 September 1944 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown 2NZEF Nom Roll 3 Actor/Civilian 2NZEF Nom Roll 3

Embarkation details

• WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom Roll 3 New Zealand Medical Corps, 2 New Zealand General Hospital 2NZEF Nom Roll 3 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Sergeant 2NZEF Nom Roll 14 Headquarters, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Base 2NZEF Nom Roll 14 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Member of the Kiwi Concert Party, female impersonator.

Performed in the Kiwi Revue as a female impersonator. AWMM

Death

1 May 1984 AWMM

Cemetery

North Shore Memorial Park and Crematorium, Schnapper Rock Road, Auckland AWMM Northern Division RSA, Ash Lawn Section 2 ,Block A, Row D, Plot 47 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• National Library Of New Zealand: Photograph : Female impersonators, Wally Prictor and P Jay, December 1942 Reference Number: PAColl-4161-01-205-08
  http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?f=nameid%24500286&id=77783&recordNum=3&u=0&t=items&s=a&tc=0&numResults=20&l=en
  Further Reference
• A 1941 recording of a performance by Private Wally Prictor can be found on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's online catalogue. U-series. Maadi Recreation tent concert. Pts 1-14 11582.
  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
• U-series. Maadi Recreation tent concert. Part 8. Year 1941; Reference 11589
  https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/11589/
  Further Reference
• Sophie Elborough & Victoria Passau. Female Impersonation in WWII and beyond. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 5 September 2025.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/female-impersonation-ii
  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.387
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.80
• The Evening Post
  VOLUME CXXXVI, ISSUE 86, 8 OCTOBER 1943
• The Evening Post
  VOLUME CXL, ISSUE 36, 11 AUGUST 1945
• 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.