Takapuna War Memorial

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... ... ... is an Anzac who served in World War One.

... ... ... is an Anzac who served in World War Two.

Takapuna War Memorial

Takapuna memorial located in the forecourt of the Takapuna council buildings, close to Takapuna Library, on The Strand at Takapuna, Auckland. Soldiers of the First and Second World Wars, and of the Korean War are recorded there.

First World War

Harold Montrose Ansenne NZ38643 Auckland Infantry : died 30th March 1918

Charles Billett NZ48316 3rd Battalion, Auckland Regiment NZEF : died 28th December 1917

Leslie Henry Brett Samoa Expeditionary Force; Flight Sub-Lieut. British Royal Naval Air Service : died 22nd July 1917

John Budge NZ16267 4th NZ Battalion; Imperial Camel Corps (N.Z.) : died 13th November 1917

Frederick Hugh Dodson NZ12/683 6th (Hauraki) Company, Auckland Infantry Battalion NZEF : died 25th April 1915

Robert Andrew Frater NZ12/1026 Auckland Infantry Battalion : died 30th April 1915

Athol Thomas Hart NZ41976 New Zealand Rifle Brigade : died 21st August 1918

Frank Raymond Haydon NZ13/812 Auckland Mounted Rifles : died c. 8th August 1915

Reginald Frederick Morten NZ12/799 16th Waikato Regiment, Auckland Bat. NZEF : died 10th June 1915

Archibald Noble NZ 38435 1st Bat. Auckland Regiment NZEF : died 23rd August 1917

Arthur Patrick Hector Pierce NZ17322 New Zealand Engineers : died 17th October 1918

Edward Hyde Pierce NZ26167 1st Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade : died 9th September 1917

William Edward Rogers NZ13/3071 2nd Battalion; Auckland Infantry Regiment, N.Z.E.F. : died 15th November 1916

William Edward Sanders Royal Naval Reserve; commander Q-ship HMS Prize : died 14th August 1917

Frank Slade NZ 26928 1st Battalion Auckland Regiment NZEF : died 3rd October 1917

Alfred Edwin Williams NZ 12/2515 Auckland Infantry Battalion : died 11th August 1915

Wilfred Richard Williams NZ 18901 2nd Battalion Auckland Infantry Regiment : died 31st July 1917

William John Wright NZ 13/977 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles : died 24th August 1915

Second World War

Lawrence Norman Abercrombie NZ42284 RNZAF 91 Group; 15 OTU RAF : died 3rd March 1943

Thomas Arthur Hughes Alexander NZ 402154 RNZAF (Ohakea) : died 30th Dec. 1941

George Edmund Mantle Allen NZ1927 Able Seaman HMNZS Monowai : died 30th December 1941

William Albert Anderson NZ464774 New Zealand Infantry, 24 Battalion : died 24th September 1944

Charles Anthony Armstrong DFM NZ401368 - Bomber Command 139 (Jamaica) Squadron RAF : died 12th June 1944

Noel John Atkinson NZ454001 New Zealand Infantry, 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion : died 30th July 1945

Donald Baillie NZ80939 - 4th NZ Armoured Brigade 18th Armoured Regiment 2nd NZEF died 15th September 1944

David Baker NZ519 - 34 Anti Tank Battery, 7 Anti Tank Regiment 2nd NZEF : died 26th March 1943

Thomas Smith Barclay NZ411358 RNZAF 75 (New Zealand) Squadron  : died 12th August 1942

John Nesbitt Beattie NZ416441 RNZAF died 9th February 1945

Peter Jack Bennett NZ16375 - 7th NZ Anti-Tank Regiment NZ Artillery : died 17th December 1941

Richard Crawford T. Bentley NZ37379 - 22 Battalion 2nd NZEF 5th Infantry Brigade : died 28th June 1942

Robert Birnie NZ:703773 Royal New Zealand Air Force, 458 (RAAF) Squadron : died 9th January 1942

Ernest Anthony Blair NZ401248 172 (RAF) Squadron : died 13th April 1942

Ronald Garland Blamires RCAF J/6951 R81025 - RCAF 418 Squadron : died 2nd August 1942

Frederick Charles Blatch NZ 21347 N.Z. Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 18th April 1941

Brian Patrick Boate NZ1592 - HMNZ Leander : died 13th July 1943

John Hamilton Bomford RNZAF NZ413808 - 1651 Communications Unit, RAF died : 28th October 1942

Stephen Robert William Bomford No: 2 N.Z. General Hospital, Kantara, Egypt : died 21st October 1943

Robert Henry Brome Bond NZ 28883 - N.Z. Artillery, 5 Field Regiment : died 27th November 1941

Henry Percival Booth DSM - Royal Navy; HMS Fiji & St Nazaire Raid : died 03-28-1942

James Broadhouse RNZNR HMS Philomel, Auckland : died 16th January 1945

Ronald Stephen Brooker NZ413810 - LAC RNZAF No:1 Flight Training School : died 16th December 1941

John George Buchanan NZ415744 - RNZAF & 450502 110 Squadron RAF : died 2nd May 1945

Ross Cameron Buckley NZ411206 - RNZAF / 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF : died 28th April 1943

Thomas Wadeson Buckley NZ413021 - RNZAF / 73 Squadron RAF : died 26th May 1944

Alan Thomas Butland NZ269022 N.Z. Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 23rd April 1943

Laurie Licence Butler NZ421672 RNZAF - 75 (NZ) Squadron : died 24th February 1944

John Richard Caldwell NZ076304 - 21st Infantry Battalion 2nd NZEF : died 24th December 1943

Ronald Dugald Campbell NZ 22241 - 18 Infantry Battalion & 21 Infantry Battalion 2nd NZEF  : died 26th May 1941

Albert John Carpenter NZ413023 - RNZAF, 136 (RAF) Squadron : died 4th April 1943

Sydney Ernest Clayton NZ426214 - RNZAF : died 22nd May 1944

Richard John Cleverdon NZ35683 - 23 Battalion NZ Infantry : died 29th March 1943

Warwick Ashling Clouston NZ402452 RNZAF 616 (RAF) Squadron : died 20th June 1942

Thomas Dudley Cochrane NZ48298 - Trooper Divisional Cavalry - 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade - 2nd NZEF : died 7th April 1944

Howard Cooper NZ 2371 - HMS Neptune - died 19th December 1941

Douglas Ronald Crump NZ26370 - 18th Armoured Regiment - 2nd NZ Div. - died 7th August 1944

Noel Somervill Culpan NZ 427019 - RNZAF; 57 (RAF) Squadron : died 17th December 1944

Ronald George Dalton NZ61957 - NZ Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 8th April 1943

Ralph Harvey Darroch First Radio Officer SS Amicus : died 19th December 1940

George William De Vere NZ402171 - RNZAF : died 6th September 1940

Geoffrey Francis Deighton NZ60990 - New Zealand Artillery, 14 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment : died 27th June 1942

Francis Herbert Dix NZ 411069 RNZAF; 214 (RAF) Squadron : died 24th February 1945

--- Dixon T.A.

Edward Charles Hibbs Doherty NZ413823 RNZAF  : died 23rd May 1942

Bruce Colin Dreaver NZ40916 - RNZAF; 49 (RAF) Squadron ; died 13th August 1943

Henry Gordon Dunn NZ17666 N.Z. Armoured Corps, 2 Div. Cavalry Regiment- died 25th February 1944

Derek Winter Eastgate Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve, HM Motor Launch 339 : died 7th October 1942

Jack Ward Edwards NZ 39908 RNZAF : died 10th May 1944

Robert Benjamin Edwards NZ1065 - RNZN died 25th June 1944

Charles Campbell Ellenberger NZ 63279 N.Z. Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 26th November 1941

Brian Ashford Ellis NZ5723 - N.Z. Infantry, 25 Battalion : died 24th October 1942

Charles Ancroft Elphick NZ 466339 - Army: Instructor : died 11th January 1943

Bernard George Evans NZ 401804 - RNZAF 115 (RAF) Squadron : died 13th August 1941

Maxwell Stewart Ferguson NZ 40523 - RAF 55 Squadron : died 1st April 1941

Cullen John Finlayson 1/15/2745 NZ Artillery : died 21st May 1942

Thomas Sharman Finlayson NZ492974 - N.Z. Artillery : died 15th October 1943

Stewart Edward Foot NZ 2577 - N.Z. Infantry - died 25th May 1941

Robert Ewen Ernest Fotheringham NZ 391833 - RNZAF 75 (RAF) Squadron : died 16th July 1941

Harold Lloyd De Forge Garland NZ 60348 NZ Staff Corps. : died 8th November 1942

Alexander Raymond Gee NZ23043 N.Z. Infantry, 24 Battalion : died 25th November 1941

Andrew Roberts Gemmell NZ2083 - NZ Infantry; 19 Battalion : died 27th April 1941

Frederick Kennett Gill NZ 43034 - RAF 83 Squadron : died 9th May 1941

Keith Dudley Gillett NZ2965 - NZ Infantry 18 Battalion : died 27th November 1941

Edward Thomas Glover NZ2206 NZ Engineers, 6 Field Company : died 18th April 1941

William Desmond Laurence Goodfellow NZ41696 - RNZAF 487 Squadron

James Frederick Gotham-Potter NZ1/9B/476 - NZ Army Service Corps : died 2nd June 1942

Robert Bavin Graham NZ 414282 - RNZAF : died 12th August 1944

--- Grant R.H.

Ian Lowrie Gray NZ36188 - Royal Air Force, 206 Squadron - died 12th May 1940

John Russell Gray NZ2561 - NZ Infantry  : died 5th July 1942

William Raeburn Green NZ 416479 - RNZAF 49 (RAF) Squadron : died 19th July 1944

Bernard Francis Grice NZ1081 - RNZN HMNZ Achilles : died 5th January 1943

Hervey Jennings Grut NZ404866 RNZAF 51 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command 4 Group : died 26th January 1942

Francis Seymour Haden NZ404867 - RNZAF : died 14th November 1942

Edgar William Harvey NZ 41902 - RNZAF 75 (RAF) Squadron : died 16th December 1942

Bruce Harvey Hay NZ 38797 - Auckland Regt., 2 Bat., D Co. : died 25th March 1961

Colin William Haydon NZ28753 - Gunner NZ Artillery, 4 Field Regiment : died 14th July 1942

Roy Sommerville Herrick NZ1498 - 4th Field Regiment New Zealand Artillery : died 2nd June 1941

Basil Duff Hewett NZ600457 - NZ Armoured Corps, 18 Reg. : died 14th December 1944

Arthur Granville Higson NZ 8348 - Ordinary Seaman RNZN : died 4th July 1944

Kenneth Arthur Hill NZ 421918 - RNZAF; 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF : died 22nd January 1944

John Bernard Honan NZ3265 - NZ Infantry, 18 Battalion : died 1st December 1941

Dean Rainsford Horrocks NZ42234 - No:2 G.R. Squadron RNZAF : died 29th September 1942

Robert Edgeworth Horrocks MC NZ25200 - NZ Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 28th November 1943

Graham Neil Horspool RNZNVR - HMS Goodall : died 29th April 1945

Noel James Hosking NZ564090 - NZ Infantry, 23 Battalion : died 24th July1944

Ernest William Hughes NZ23332 - NZ Artillery, 6 Field Regiment : died 5th April 1943

Harold Charles Hulme NZ5381 - N Z Infantry brigade, 19 Battalion : died 26th May 1941

Lloyd Hamilton Hume NZ22967 - NZ Artillery : died 29th May 1941

John Francis Hunt NZ403548 - RNZAF, 34 Squadron, RAF  : died 12th August 1941

Robin Benjamin Martin Hurren NZ 22581 NZ Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 22nd November 1941

Charles Lestrum Hyde P/JX 134456 - RN HMS Gloucester : died 8th July 1940

Ralph Francis Jenkin NZ416119 - RNZAF 75 Squadron : died 16th December 1943

Gerald Bruce Johnson NZ391859 - RNZAF / RAF 23 Squadron : died 28th May 1941

Samuel Graham Johnson DFC : NZ 416502 RNZAF : died 20th January 1944

James Struthers Jones NZ413424 - RNZAF / 56 RAF Squadron : died 18th August 1942

William Charles Jorgensen NZ404608 - RNZAF 52 Squadron : died 5th August 1943

Murray Osborne Jorgensen NZ 413086 - RNZAF, 486 Squadron : died 16th September 1943

Harold Kay NZ404377 RNZAF; 34 Squadron, RAF - died 12th May 1842

Henry John Kindred NZ:W/3739 RNZNVR; HMS ML311 : died 15th February 1942

John Joseph Kingsford NZ81866 - NZ Armoured Corps. 18 Regiment : died 23rd July 1944

Leon Gaston Knight NZ405494 -RNZAF 75 Squadron : died 9th June 1942

Eric Alfred Langridge NZ45578 - RNZAF Nelson (NZ) : died 23rd July 1945

Selwyn Latta NZ41339 - RNZAF 489 (NZ) Squadron, RAF : died 9th April 1943

Ian Goss Laurenson NZ23367 - NZ Artillery, 7 Anti-Tank Regiment : died 22nd July 1942

Owen Rex Wallace Lawson NZ17393 - NZ Armoured Corps, Divisional Cavalry Regiment : died 25th October 1941

Ian Stewart Leahy NZ 404031 - RNZAF 22 (RAF) Squadron : died 13th February 1943

Ronald William Lornie NZ 413944 - RNZAF 247 (RAF) Squadron died 8th July 1943

William John Lyon NZ 2574 - NZ Infantry : died 26th May 1941

Keith James Drewitt McCorkindale NZ 800128 - NZ Infantry, 22 Battalion : died 16th April 1945

John Grant McCutchan NZ 403978 - RNZAF 72 (RAF) Squadron : died 25th April 1942

William Jack McDevitt NZ29364 21st Battalion Infantry Reinforcements 2nd NZEF : died 16th April 1945

Peter John Dickson McGeehan DFM NZ411989 - RNZAF 139 (RAF) Squadron : died 16th March 1943

Walter Donald McKay NZ411592 - RNZAF : died 3rd February 1943

Lloyd Dick McKechnie NZ63441 - NZ Artillery, 5 Field Regiment : died 29th November 1943

Albert William McLean NZ411724 - RNZAF; 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF : died 28th October 1942

Denis Beresford McLean RNZNVR HMS Saker ll : died 11th August 1942

Gordon Edward McLeod NZ4214029 - RNZNVR 761 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, HMS Dipper : died 25th June 1945

Alexander Douglas McMurtrie NZ402908 RNZAF; 54 O.T.U. : died 18th July 1941

Ian Anderson MacKechnie NZ 66894 - NZ Artillery, 6 Field Regiment : died 15th April 1943

Sydney Colin Rive (Colin) Mackie NZ413713 - RNZAF, 35 Squadron RAF : died 20th December 1943

Christopher David Maclean NZ 431975 - RNZAF 16 Squadron : died 18th September 1944

Francis Raymond Madden NZ617433 - NZ Armoured Corps, 19 Regiment : died 19th April 1945

Richard Brandon Mander NZ415776 - RNZAF, 37 Squadron, RAF : died 26th June 1944

Albert John Martin NZ291702 - NZ Infantry, 25 Battalion : died 24th September 1944

Henry Joseph Meharry NZ 41992 RNZAF, 64 (RAF) Squadron : died 5th August 1944.

James Meneely PO/22451 - HMNZS Achilles : died 5th January 1943

Reginald Joseph Braithwaite Miles Fleet Air Arm RN HMS Glorious : died 8th June 1940

Miller L. (possibly Leonard Miller

Victor Jack Mortensen NZ4212586 - RNZAF 23 Squadron : died 28th March 1945

Edgar Elliott Morton 40635 RAF Advanced Air Striking Force, 103 Squadron - died 12th May 1940

John Gerald Mullane NZ23622 - NZ Artillery, 7 Anti-Tank Regiment : died 9th January 1942

Iain Alasdair Murray NZ42222 - NZ Infantry, 21 Battalion : died 20th April 1943

Michael Geoffrey Oliver NZ 23339 - NZ Artillery, 6 Field Regiment : died 1st December 1941

Thomas Crawford Bentley Patterson NZ402891 RNZAF, 99 Squadron RAF : died 15th November 1941

Frederick Payne NZ421987 - RNZAF, 1651 Conversion Unit, RAF : died 31st August 1943

Ivan Harold Peek NZ 25320 - New Zealand Infantry, 18 Battalion : died 2nd June 1941

Cyril Stewart Pepper MC NZ20240 - New Zealand Artillery : died 30th May 1943

Bernard Leslie Peterson NZ412350 - RNZAF, 7 (RAF) Squadron : died 21st December 1942

James Derrick Philson NZ 412730 RNZAF - died 25th January 1943

Thomas Kirby Pollock NZ 24717 - New Zealand Artillery 6 Field Regiment : died 4th July 1942

Clunie Watson Pratt NZ:12329 & NZ:5/1/881 - WW1 : C Company 3rd Reg. 1st Batt. NZ Rifle Brigade & WW2 : Nat Reserve Papakura : died 20th September 1941

Roger Joseph Samuel Rabone NZ 26028 - NZ Artillery, 4 Field Regiment : died 25th October 1942.

Francis Graham Reid RNZNVR : died 12th March 1944

Ian Laurie Reid NZ391846 - RNZAF, Bomber Command : died 3rd July 1941

Eric Selwyn Reynolds NZ 60677 - NZ Artillery, 5 Field Regiment : died 27th November 1941

Trevor Norman Rhodes NZ23368 - NZ Artillery, 5 Field Regiment : died 27th November 1941

Eric Andrew Riddell NZ1722 - NZ Artillery, 4 Field Regiment : died 19th July 1941

Robin Gregory Shaw NZ 38213 - RNZAF : died 26th August 1942

Charles John Sidford NZ 578316 - NZ Artillery, 9 Heavy Regiment : died 27th June 1943

Douglas Simmonds RNZNVR HMS Heron died 25th September 1941

Charles Ritchie Simmons NZ 623586 - NZ Infantry 25 Battalion : died 25th January 1945.

Smeaton William Hubert NZ 405331 - RNZAF, 75 (RAF) Squadron : died 22nd May 1942

Charles Thornton Smith NZ 43377 - NZ Army Medical Corps, 22 Field Ambulance : died 22nd March 1944

Alexander Balfour Spence NZ 425001 - RNZAF : died 1st March 1943

Malcolm Joseph Steel NZ 424533 - RNZAF 101 (RAF) Squadron : died 26th August 1944

Gray Stenborg DFC - NZ 402494 RNZAF 91 (Raf) Squadron : died 24th September 1943

Edward Stephenson NZ 63865 NZ Infantry 29 Battalion : died 27th October 1943

Norman Alfred Stephenson NZ 633616 - NZ Artillery, 4 Field Regiment : died 1st August 1944

Charles Stevenson NZ 429216 RNZAF 15 (RAF) Squadron : died 16th November 1944

Linton William Stevenson NZ404961 - RNZAF; 607 Squadron RAF : died 11th November 1941

James Maxwell Stewart NZ 1/1A/772 - Auckland Infantry Brigade, Signals Platoon, 2nd Auckland Battalion : died 8th May 1942

Donald John Stott DSO & Bar NZ 20681 NZ Artillery, 5 Field Regiment : died 20th March 1945

Lewis Alfred Strong NZ443879 - NZ Infantry, 25 Battalion : died 3rd February 1945

Ernest Stewart Talboys NZ 21197 - NZ Artillery, 6 Field Regiment : died 7th July 1942

Royston Charles Clifford Taylor - NZ 404426 RNZAF, 7 (RAF) Squadron : died 15th August 1943

Fenton Thomas NZ 23289 - NZ Artillery 1 Survey Troop : died 4th July 1942

Raymond Thomas NZ 40586 - RNZAF 75 Squadron : died 6th July 1943

Richard Raymond Thomas NZ 401447 Royal New Zealand Air Force 99 Squadron

Stephen Muir Tietjens NZ 415640 - RNZAF 75 (RAF) Squadron : died 24th May 1943

Eric Turner NZ 82550 - New Zealand Infantry, 24 Battalion : died 7th April 1945

Nelson Cremer Turner NZ 39780 RNZAF, 53 Operational Training Unit : died 24th September 1942

Alan Cecil Turtill NZ 20065 - NZ Infantry 21 Battalion : died 29th November 1941

Ralph Holland Tye NZ 404002 - RNZAF, 27 OTU : died 11th January 1943

Arthur Leslie Undrill NZ 67057 - New Zealand Infantry : died 23rd July 1942

Leslie Herbert Upton NZ 62171 NZ Infantry, 24 Battalion : died 22nd July 1942

John Veitch NZ 11013 - New Zealand Army Service Corps. : died 3rd June 1941

John Marshall Waddell NZ 402230 RNZAF, 50 (RAF) Squadron : died 13th October 1941

John Walker RNZN; HMS Capel : died 26th December 1944

Henry George Walters NZ425377 - 180 Squadron, RAF : died 25th August 1944

David Owen Waters NZ405350 - RNZAF; 72 Squadron : died 9th May 1942

Desmond Vaughan Weight NZ1071 - 2nd Divisional Cavalry, 1st Echelon 2nd NZEF : died 28th May 1941

Thomas Arthur Wells NZ 66553 - NZ Infantry 24 Battalion : died 26th March 1943

Geoffrey Owen Wheeler NZ 2657 - NZ Artillery 4 Field Regiment : died 29th June 1942

James Whyte NZ 413954 - RNZAF, 547 Squadron : died 15th August 1943

James Archibald Wilson NZ 413923 - RNZAF, 78 (RAF) Squadron : died 26th March 1943 -

John Ivan Wilson NZ60163 - NZ Artillery, 14 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment : died 5 December 1841

Noel Herbert Wood NZ 737361 - NZ RNZAF 6 Service Flying Training School : died 26th August 1944

Walter Wordsworth New Zealand Military Forces : died 22nd July 1944

John Burton Wright - NZ 404584 RNZAF, 4 Squadron : died 6th January 1945

Korean War

Cedric John Vugler NZ 203586 - Kayforce : died 11th February 1951