John Leslie McIndoe

Forenames

John Leslie AWMM

Surname

McIndoe AWMM

Service number

WWII 9014 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

18 Nov 1898 BDM, births & deaths

Address before enlistment

WW2 Pre 1940 AWMM 523 McAndrew Road, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mrs Olga Roberts McIndoe (wife), 523 McAndrew Road, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

1922 AWMM Married/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 9014 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Printer/Civilian 2NZEF Nominal Roll

Embarkation details

WW2 Second Lieutenant 2NZEF Nominal Roll 2 Divisional Supply Column 2NZEF Nominal Roll

Capture details

• WW2
  1941 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Crete AWMM
• WW2
• WW2 POW - Oflag IX-A/Z, Rotenburg, Germany AWMM

Death

9 May 1995 BDM deaths; cemetery record
Age  96 AWMM

Cemetery

Wakapuaka Crematorium, Nelson AWMM Cremated AWMM

Related objects

External links

• National Collection of War Art. Drawing: The daily rations of a prisoner of war in Germany, 25 August 1941
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22497990
  Further Reference
• National Collection of War Art. Watercolour. The woodcutters camp, 27 June 1944
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22497991
  Further Reference
• National Collection of War Art. Watercolour. Rotenburg from O'flag [Oflag IX A/Z Allied P.O.W. camp], c. May 1943
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22497196
  Further Reference
• Nelson City Council cemeteries database
  http://nelson.govt.nz/services/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-database-2/
  Sources Used
• Find New Zealand Artists
  https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/9968
  Further Reference
• 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
• NZASC lieutenants D J Henshaw and J L McIndoe in their dugout, Western Desert. 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-00724-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22327911
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22327911
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
  WW2 1: WW2 112
• 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.
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.
• Bates, P. (1955). Supply Company. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.