Alfred Daniel Andreassend
Died 1964
- Service number
- WWII 13796 AWMM
- Also known as
- Alf AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
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- War
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
About
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- Forenames
- Alfred Daniel AWMM
- Surname
- Andreassend AWMM
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- Also known as
- Alf AWMM
- Service number
- WWII 13796 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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About birth
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- Address before enlistment
- WW2 Pre Jul 1940 AWMM 101 Forfar Street, St Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
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- Next of kin
- WW2 Mrs I.G. Andreassend (wife), 101 Forfar Street, St Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Married/WWII AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Campaign
- North Africa AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
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- WWII 13796 AWMM
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- WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
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Embarkations
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- WW2 26 Infantry Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Prisoner of war
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- WW2
- WW2 POW - Stalag IX-B, Bad Orb-Wegscheide, Germany AWMM
- WW2 POW - P.G. 73, Carpi, Italy AWMM
- WW2 POW - Military Hospital, Caserta, Italy AWMM
- WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-A, Gorlitz, Poland AWMM
- WW2 POW - Oflag IX-B, Weilburg, Germany AWMM
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Biographical information
- Husband of Ivy Georgina (nee Long) Andreassend.
Alf was wounded, losing his left eye and bridge of his nose, and taken prisoner during the Battle for Egypt in July 1942. In Italy and Germany he had the first of some 100 operations for plastic surgery that continued over years until a final operation at Middlemore Hospital about 1960. He died in 1964 aged 59.
He was wounded at Alamein in July 1942, and then taken prisoner of war, he was taken to Italy via Tripoli and by December had formed a friendship with 3 other NZ prisoners of war: Ivan Hay, Richard George Mangham and Stuart Laurence Meares. Whilst at a POW Hospital he underwent more than 20 operations. Alf was repatriated to New Zealand in June/July 1945. He returned to the UK where he underwent more surgery under the care of the doctors responsible for the pioneering work of the Guinea Pig Club. Plastic surgery continued at Burwoord and Middlemore hospitals for many years post war.
Brothers Bert Victor Andreassend, Alfred Daniel Andreassend (13796) and Arthur Henry Andreassend (13787) served in WW2.
The Auckland War Memorial Museum had on display in 'Scars of War' in the 'Scars on the Heart' gallery a number of items belonging to Alfred Andreassend including tapestry and needlework he did while a prisoner in Germany, and while convalescing at East Grinstead Hospital in Britain. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 1964 BDM, deaths
Age 59 AWMM - Date of death
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Memorial
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Sources
- External links
- Prisoners of War 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Repatriated Medically Unfit Protected Personnel. Archives NZ R25405151.
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R25405151
Sources Used - 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
- Prisoners of War 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Repatriated Medically Unfit Protected Personnel. Archives NZ R25405151.
- 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.
WW2 3: WW2 Unknown page - Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
- Norton, F. (1952). 26 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Information kindly provided by family
- The parting of the ways : a souvenir record of the triumphs, tribulations and maritime musings of returning draft H.M.N.Z.T No. 217, 'Zealandic'. January 18th, 1919 to February 26th, 1919.
- Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
- Prisoners of War 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Repatriated Medically Unfit Protected Personnel [WW2 POW Medically Unfit], 1943 [1946], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393/1/v (R25405151)
- Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- 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.
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