Identity
Title
Forenames
Ivo Hartley AWMM
Surname
Watson AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
Service number
63293 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Civilian life
Birth
29 February 1912 AWMM AWMM
Date of birth
Place of birth
Birth notes
Address before enlistment
Unknown AWMM Rawenga Road, St Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
Ivo Henry Watson (father) AWMM
Relationship status
Service
Medical notes
- Remarks, Unknown Period AWMM
Had a stomach ulcer yet was pronounced A1 fit. AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
Measles AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
Malaria - admitted Poznam Hospital, Poland. AWMM - Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Heart and kidney failure AWMM
Last rank
WW2 23 October 1945
AWMM War Over!
AWMM Private AWMM
Biographical information
Had special rations in Prisoner of War Camp Stalag 8B
According to his wife "When the American spearhead came through, the prisoners guards had already slunk off into the bush. Ivo and his brother Harry went towards the sound of guns, saw an American tank straddling the railway line. They waved their "white" singlets at them, and said "Welcome to Germany". The Americans lifted the lid off the tank and said "Where the hell did you learn to speak English in the middle of Germany?" Ivo and Harry told them their fellow prisoners of war were just around the corner so the Americans blew up the railway line & came & liberated them. Ivo and Harry took a woman's bike to get to the American post. Ivo worried if the woman ever got her bike back."
Served in NZ 278 days and overseas for 4 years 104 days.
Received 50th Anniversary Commemorative medal. AWMM
Death
Death
9 August 1998 AWMM
Age 86 AWMM
AWMM
Date of death
Age at death
Place of death
Cause of death
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Cemetery
Manukau Memorial Gardens Cemetery & Crematorium (Papatoetoe Cemetery), 357 Puhinui Road, Puhinui, Manukau City AWMM
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Obituary
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Sources
External links
Documents
- Watson, Ivo Hartley. Second World War experiences of Ivo Hartley Watson and Harry Watson, 1992. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2002/203 AWMM
- List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
- Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
p.369 AWMM - Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM
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