Horace Aubrey Kettle

Forenames

Horace Aubrey AWMM

Surname

Kettle AWMM

Also known as

Hori Kettle AWMM

Service number

WWII 6264 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

17 Mar 1918 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 Pre 1940 AWMM Leslie St., New Plymouth AWMM

Post war occupation

Freezing Worker/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mr. H.A. Kettle, Leslie St., New New Plymouth (father) AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 1940 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Campaign

1941 AWMM Crete AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 6264 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.102
Age  22 AWMM
Baker/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.102

Occupation before enlistment

Baker

Public - Dennis - Child - 7 February 2015 - Details in the book on the 22nd Battalion

Embarkation details

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.102 22 Infantry Battalion 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.102 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
  May 1941-1945 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag 357 (No. 2), Thorn, modern day Toruń, Poland AWMM
• WW2 POW - Crete AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Cancer AWMM

Last rank

Corporal/Military AWMM

Death

6 Apr 1985 AWMM
Age  67 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Waitotara Cemetery, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Taranaki Newspaper AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Drumm, Angus. Prisoner of War Camps WWII. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 9 March 2021.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/studentship
  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

References

• Armoury Cenotaph File
  A photocopied copy of Horace Kettle's book containing cartoons, poems and essays written when he was a POW is held in the Armoury
• Kettle, Horace Aubrey. Prisoner of war journal, 1944. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2005/10.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Henderson, J. (1958). 22 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• 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.