John Gordon Wade AWMM

Crawford AWMM

WWII 22823 AWMM

Male AWMM

1909 AWMM New Zealand AWMM

Unknown AWMM Devonport Road, Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Dental surgeon/Civilian AWMM

Mrs Dorothy Olive Linda Crawford (wife), Commercial Hotel, Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Unknown AWMM Married/WWII AWMM

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Army AWMM

WWII 22823 AWMM

Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) AWMM
London Gazette 20th December 1945, "This officer, while a prisoner of war in German hands, was for 2 1/2 years Dental Officer at Stalag 838, where some 6000 British NCOs were confined. Until he arrived at this camp in December 1942 no proper facilities for dentistry existed. Capt. Crawford, by persistently importuning the German authorities, gradually accumulated sufficient material to improvise much of the apparatus he requried, the remainder being supplied by the Red Cross societies. As a result he was able to provide some 400 men with new dentures and repair as many, beside treating more than 7000 patients. It cannot be too strongly stressed that Capt. Crawford had to contend all the time with great obstructiveness on the part of the Germans, who did not consider that non-working NCOs should be provided with teeth. Capt. Crawford's dauntless energy and the devotion with which he practised his profession under difficult circumstances to the great benefit of his fellow prisoners of war is deserving of the highest praise." Pomeroy and Beattie, p. 78. AWMM

WW2 Unknown AWMM Dentist/Civilian AWMM
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty AWMM

WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM

• WW2 POW - Stalag 383 (previously Oflag III-C), Hofenfells, Bavaria AWMM
  1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Greece List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
  Greece, Europe List of 2NZEF POW (MS 2009/8)
• WW2 POW - Stalag 383 (previously Oflag III-C), Hofenfells, Bavaria 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.

WWII 193 AWMM

Major/Military AWMM
New Zealand Dental Corps AWMM

12 December 1998 AWMM
Age 89 AWMM
Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Awa Tapu Cemetery, Valley Road, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand AWMM Ashes Serviceman's Cremation Garden Plot 40 Block SGA AWMM

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Kapiti Coast District Council cemetery search
  http://eservices.kapiticoast.govt.nz/cemeteries/search
  Sources Used
• Kapiti Coast District Council cemetery record and headstone image
  http://eservices.kapiticoast.govt.nz/cemeteries/04SGA040
  Further Reference
• 'Auckland Museum searching for family of man depicted in POW camp bedsheet painting' Ryan Anderson, Stuff, April 26 2021
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124928776/auckland-museum-searching-for-family-of-man-depicted-in-pow-camp-bedsheet-painting
  Further Reference

• 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
  WW2 3: WW2 105 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
• Beattie, P.J. and Pomeroy, M.J. (2016). Gallant Acts and Noble Deeds: New Zealand army honours and awards for the Second World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Fair Dinkum Publications.; P.J. Beattie and M.J. Pomeroy, 2016. AWMM
  p. 75 AWMM