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World War II (1939-1945): New Zealand Roll of Honour

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Aldridge, Baker, Brosnahan, Brown and 16 others
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  • 2nd. Lieut. Donald Forrester McFarlane (1918 - 1941)
    Donald Forrester McFarlane was the son of Herbert Osbourne McFarlane and Fanny Cathcart McFarlane, Napier, Hawke's Bay; formerly of Dunedin. Four sons were killed in WW2 John Osbourne McFarlane NZ40288...
  • Flg. Off. Laurence Herbert McFarlane (1914 - 1940)
    Laurence Herbert McFarlane was the son of Herbert Osbourne McFarlane and Fanny Cathcart McFarlane, Napier, Hawke's Bay; formerly of Dunedin. He attended Otago Boys' High School. Killed in action. Four ...
  • Pte. John Joseph Graham Young (1895 - 1943)
    John Young was the son of Edward and Mary Young, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Lillian Victoria Young, of Timaru, Canterbury. Also served in 1914-18 War. Sources Cenotaph:
  • Lieut. Edward Charles Roi Young (1889 - 1918)
    Transferred from the NZEF Rifleman NZ Rifle Brigade NZ Division and joined RNR 15 December 1917 and posted to this AMC with the 2nd Cruiser Squadron White Sea escort duty, served as troopship & convoy ...
  • Plt/Off. William Jarvis Willis (1911 - 1944)
    William Jarvis Willis was born at Greatford in the Manawatū-Whanganui area of New Zealand's North Island on 3 February 1911. He was the son of Thomas Riddiford Willis and Mary Knox Willis (nee Dalrympl...

The Second World War was the greatest conflict ever to engulf the world. It took the lives of 50 million people, including one in every 150 New Zealanders, and shaped the world that we have lived in ever since.

  • The population of New Zealand in 1940 was about 1,600,000.
  • About 140,000 New Zealand men and women served, 104,000 in 2NZEF, the rest in the British or New Zealand naval or air forces.
  • Fatal casualties during the conflict numbered 11,928 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission figures).
  • Post-war calculations indicated that New Zealand's ratio of killed per million of population (at 6684) was the highest in the Commonwealth (with Britain at 5123 and Australia, 3232).

This project is to commemorate those who died in the Conflict.
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