The trees and plaques along Devonport Memorial Drive commemorate the following men from Devonport who lost their lives during the Second World War. Click here for further information about this memorial.
| Surname | First Name(s) | Serial No. | Location of plaque |
| Archibald | David | NZ412643 | Eastern side |
| Armstrong | Charles Anthony | NZ401368 | Eastern side |
| Baillie | Donald | 80939 | Eastern side |
| Bartrum | Percy Harold | 23881 | Eastern side |
| Bassett | Trevor Norman | NZ401719 | Eastern side |
| Bennett | Peter Jack | 16375 | Eastern side |
| Blackman | Douglas Arnold | 23542 | Western side |
| Blamires | Ronald Garland | J/6951 R81025 | Eastern side |
| Boate | Brian Patrick | NZ1592 | Western side |
| Body | Douglas Alexander | 60222 | Western side |
| Bond | Warren Clifton | 28108 | Western side |
| Boswell-Kitching | Jack Lambert | NZ416966 | Western side |
| Buchanan | John George | NZ415744 | Eastern side |
| Buckley | Ross Cameron | NZ411206 | Western side |
| Buckley | Thomas Wadeson | NZ413021 | Western side |
| Caldwell | John Richard | 76304 | Eastern side |
| Chaplin | Richard Alexander | 2992 | Western side |
| Coleman | William Harcourt | NZ2526 | Eastern side |
| Cooper | Howard | 2371 | Eastern side |
| Crump | Douglas Ronald | 26370 | Eastern side |
| Cullen | Gregory | P/K61213 | Eastern side |
| Fletcher | Andrew Crawford | NZ42675 | Western side |
| Gilchrist | Gordon George | 2361 | Western side |
| Gray | Ian Lowrie | 36188 | Eastern side |
| Hale | Laurence Eastmule | NZ42395 | Eastern side |
| Harrison | John Roby | RNZVR | Eastern side |
| Fletcher | Andrew Crawford | NZ42675 | Western side |
| Herman | Dennis Arthur | 452201 | Western side |
| Herrick | Roy Somerville | 1498 | Western side |
| Holloway | Jack Rayson | 428511 | Western side |
| Hunt | John Francis | NZ403548 | Western side |
| Johnston | Robert Harvey | 65613 | Eastern side |
| Jones | Frederick John | 67950 | Eastern side |
| Kay | Harold | NZ404377 | Eastern side |
| King | John Fraser | 25228 | Eastern side |
| Latta | Selwyn | NZ41339 | Eastern side |
| Leaity | Ernest Henry | 62075 | Western side |
| Lyon | William John | 2574 | Western side |
| Mackie | Sydney Colin Rive | NZ413713 | Eastern side |
| Martin | Arthur John | L/T RNZVR | Western side |
| McArthur | Kenneth | NZ425270 | Eastern side |
| McCallum | Laurence Bruce | NZ422663 | Western side |
| McDevitt | William Jack | 29364 | Western side |
| Rasmussen | Kenneth Charles | NZ2425 | Eastern side |
| Ryder | Laurence Edward | 35413 | Eastern side |
| Skinner | Bruce James | NZ425199 | Western side |
| Stevenson | Linton William | NZ404961 | Western side |
| Stone | Brian Joseph | NZ43217 | Western side |
| Upton | James Tasker | 23066 | Western side |
| Walker | John | RNZN | Eastern side |
| Walters | Henry George | NZ425377 | Eastern side |
| Waters | David Owen | NZ405350 | Eastern side |
| Weight | Desmond Vaughan | 1071 | Eastern side |
| Wheeler | Geoffrey Owen | 2657 | Western side |
| Whelan | William Groves | 62544 | Eastern side |
| Williams | Edwin John | NZ39298 | Western side |
| Wilson | Norman | NZ413529 | Western side |
| Wilson | John Ivan | 60163 | Western side |
| Wood | Noel Herbert | NZ437361 | Western side |
| Wood | Trevor | Western side |
Find out more about those listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database
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RELATED TO DEVONPORT MEMORIAL DRIVE
Events
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25 April 1916
The first Anzac Day
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24 May 1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
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15 October 1942
NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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7 June 1940
Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
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24 April 1941
Sinking of the Hellas
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2 October 1941
NZ pilot saves Scottish village
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19 December 1941
HMS Neptune lost in Mediterranean minefield
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13 December 1939
Battle of the River Plate
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19 August 1944
Kiwi pilot's sacrifice saves French village
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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20 May 1941
German paratroops assault Crete
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11 November 1942
Troopship Awatea goes down fighting
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14 May 1941
NZ minesweeper sunk off Bream Head
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15 March 1944
NZ forces capture Castle Hill at Cassino
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26 April 1943
NZ ship torpedoed in Tasman
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23 February 1940
100,000 welcome home HMS Achilles crew
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9 May 1945
NZ celebrates Victory in Europe
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12 June 1942
First US troops arrive in Auckland
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22 November 1939
Freyberg takes command of NZ Expeditionary Force
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8 December 1941
New Zealand declares war on Japan
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19 June 1940
Niagara sunk by German mines off Northland
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15 August 1945
The war is over! VJ Day
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16 August 1944
CORSO formed
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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3 September 1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
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5 September 1939
PM declares NZ's support for Britain
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27 October 1943
NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
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2 November 1942
NZ Division helps Allies break through at El Alamein
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17 December 1944
Major Major, mascot of 19 Battalion, dies of sickness
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7 March 1941
NZ troops arrive in Greece
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19 March 1946
Main body of Jayforce lands in Japan
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3 April 1943
'Battle of Manners Street'
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29 March 1942
Nazi sabotage hoax
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11 May 1945
Upham presented with VC
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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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21 January 1944
NZ and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
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25 February 1943
49 killed in Featherston POW incident
Biographies
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Howard Kippenberger
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Richard Gross
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William Trethewey
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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Kitty Kain
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Bernard Freyberg
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Geoffrey Cox
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Michael Joseph Savage
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Peter Fraser
Articles
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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HMNZS Leander
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The Second World War at home
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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Battle of the River Plate
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Military mascots
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Māori and the Second World War
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Second World War - overview
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War in the Pacific
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First World War memorials
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D-Day
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The Italian Campaign
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The Merchant Navy
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The North African Campaign
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Prisoners of War
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VE and VJ days
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South African War memorials
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US Forces in New Zealand
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The Battle for Crete
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Memorials register
Community contributions