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This graph shows that the vast majority of New Zealand Army POWs (6897) were captured between April 1941 and September 1942. Of these 1856 were captured in Greece, 2180 in Crete and the remainder in the Western Desert. Approximately a fifth of these were wounded or died in POW camps during this period.
I am trying to find out about my Great uncle Ellis Ransley. I got his military records, but it doesn't tell me about his time as a POW in Itay, in world war 2
I have just found two tape recordings made the earlie 70s Of my uncle, Roy Anderson 2NZEF. Of his 4 years POW Experince
Captured in North Africa and ended up Auschwitz if anybody interested
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