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Max Pike

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Max AWMM
  • Surname
    Pike AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Pikey AWMM
  • Service number
    14288 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    28 February 1919 AWMM Cobden, West Coast AWMM
    Cobden, Greymouth, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 27 March 1940 AWMM 103 Brighton Street, Cobden, Greymouth, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Postal Worker/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Ruth Pike (mother), 103 Brighton Street, Cobden, Greymouth, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 10 November 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      Bel Hamid, Algeria AWMM
      1 December 1941 AWMM
      Encirled and overrun by tanks. AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Unknown Camp, Casluetrana Sicily AWMM
      3 weeks AWMM
    • WW2
      22 months AWMM
    • WW2
      13 December 1941 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Stalag 357 (No 2), Thorn, modern day Toruń, Poland 2NZEF, Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. N.Z. 1945.
      Germany, Europe 2NZEF, Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. N.Z. 1945.
    • WW2 POW - P.G. 103, Treviso, Italy Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
      Treviso, Italy Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number
    138778 - Altengrabow XIA AWMM

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
    Mr Pike was admitted to the German prison camp hospital in Moosberg VIIA where he was operated on for an interseption by Surgeon Major Beaumont of the United States Army. AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Mr Pike went to Crete in a reinforcement platoon under the command of Sergeant J D Hinton. In Athens he joined 15 platoon under the command of Charles Upham.

    Below is Mr Pike's description of his POW experiences."After we were caught at Belhamed we went to Derna then to Benghazi. After about a week or so, about 90 were taken to Tripoli. About 40 of us were put on an old tramp and after 6 nights and 5 days we arrived in Trapani, Sicily. After a week we went to Pertino and then to Campo 57 about 25 December 1941. About the end of May 1943 we went to a working camp (Arbeitskommando) 103/6 at Ampezzo. When the Itis packed it in we went to Treviso.

    The Huns picked us up there and we left for Germany 12 o'clock 13 September 1943. We arrived at Moosburg VIIA at 5 pm 16 September. I went straight to Camp Hospital and at 11pm was operated on for an interseption by Surgeon Major Beaumont of the United States army.

    I had No 83628 given to me in hospital. Slipped away with my mates to Altengrabow XIA (HELL HOLE). From there to Arbeitskommando 7002 Ufingen. Worked there for 16 months. Spent 2 days on the walk and was released at Haberstadt by the 9th American Army about 12 April 1945. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • McGill, D. (1987). P.O.W. : the untold stories of New Zealanders as prisoners of war. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: Mills Publications. AWMM
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
      p.379 AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM
    • Pringle, D., & Glue, W. (1957). 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM

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