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Colin Astor Baynes

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Lt # 4119 COLIN A BAYNES - EM - 2nd NZEF 19 BTN & J FORCE 22BTN Died 29 - 4 -1998 aged 85yrs A ANNE BAYNES died 14.4.2000 aged 61yrs They are buried in the Wanaka Cemetery, SI

Colin A BAYNES

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  • Title
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    Colin Astor AWMM
  • Surname
    Baynes AWMM
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    4119 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 64 Marine Parade, Napier, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr W. Baynes (father), 20 Root Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
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    4119 AWMM
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    • WW2
      Crete, Greece List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
    • WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, 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.
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    WWII 5375 AWMM

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  • After having been a prisoner of war for nearly four years. T.R.Q.M.S. Colin A. Baynes has arrived safely in Britain. Advice 1o this effect has been received by his father. Mr. W. Baynes, 25 Herbert road, Gisborne. Prior to the war Colin Baynes was on the staff of the Social Security Department in Wellington and Napier. He left with the First Echelon and served in both North Africa and Greece. Captured in Crete, he managed to escape to the mountains but was recaptured about six months later. Advice was eventually received that he was a prisoner of war in Germany. No word had been received from him for seven months, the only information being that he had been moved to another part of Germany.
    NEW ZEALANDERS REPORTED SAFE
    GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21724, 28 MAY 1945, PAGE 4
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 22 July 2023
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  • Colin was my father and passed away in 1998 inClyde Central Oatgo. He is buried in the Returned Services section of the Wanaka cemetary. Colin was married to Betty in Oamaru in 1949 and had 2 children, Rex and Lesley. Betty passed away in May of 1967. Colin remarried and retired to Wanaka in 1972. A great dad who is sadly missed.. Rex Baynes
    Public - Rex - Child - 5 December 2015
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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 1: WW2 16 AWMM
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM
    • Sinclair, D. (1954). 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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22 July 2023Lorraine Mona Gisborne Researcher
05 December 2015Rex Lower Hutt New ZealandChild

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