Earl Stevenson-Wright

Forenames

Earl AWMM

Surname

Stevenson-Wright AWMM

Also known as

E.S. Wright AWMM

Service number

WWI 31479 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

16 Feb 1909 AWMM

Address before enlistment

42 Rintoul Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mr F.W. Wright (father), 195 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Single AWMM
• Single/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31479 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) (Military) AWMM
  This officer... volunteered for dangerous work attending Russian prisoners during a severe typhus epidemic... though himself a victim, he continued in service... raising morale, uniting prisoners, and saving British patients under fire. (Abridged citation) AWMM
• Military Cross (MC) AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• 1939-1945 Defence Medal
  Italy Star
  Africa Star
  1939-1945 Star
  Public - David Bernard - Child - 6 February 2025 - Military Personal File
  POW File

Enlistment

WW2 Medical practitioner AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM 1 New Zealand General Hospital AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Capture details

• WW2 POW - Stalag IV-A Hohnstein, Hohenstein, Germany AWMM
  1941 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Crete AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag IV-A Hohnstein, Hohenstein, Germany AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 120, Cetona, Italy AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Wright.

Name filed under Wright on the Embarkation Nominal Roll and POW Roll. AWMM

Death

1988 AWMM

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
• Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24777, 18 January 1946, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19460118.2.34
  Further Reference
• Judy Owen & Victoria Passau. Red Cross medical support for Prisoners of War: Dr John Borrie. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/j-borrie
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
  WW2 2: WW2 205
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• 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.
• Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.