Arthur Vincent Cassidy

Private · NZ #38671

Rank	Private
Service number	NZ #38671
Born	1913-02-27
Died	1996-11-17
POW / KIA	Prisoner of war — captured 22 November 1943
Record	https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/171985

What this roll records

The prefix NZ has been added to his service number, on the authority of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph record already linked on this card — the Museum holds him as a New Zealand service person. The digits are unchanged. This roll formerly left the number unmarked, which made it look like a British number to anyone reading the field rather than the card.

Taken prisoner of war on 22 November 1943. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Embarkation detail from his Cenotaph record: he embarked as Private, 14th Brigade (2NZEF Nominal Roll 7 p. 29; again Nominal Roll 11 p. 23). This agrees with the rank held on this card. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record 171985.

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Where this comes from

Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 7, p.29; No. 11, p.23. Unit history: Mason, W.W. (1954). Prisoners of war. Also cited: List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War 1941-1945, AWMM Library MS 2009/8; Contributor data via Ancestry, Find a Grave, Horowhenua Council cemetery search.

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