John McManaway Giles

Sergeant · NZ #6524

What this roll records

Online Cenotaph record found in August 2026 by searching the service number. A CLERK in civilian life; he embarked as a Sergeant with Artillery Reinforcements, Third Echelon (2NZEF Nominal Roll 3, p.171), which agrees with the rank held on this card. CAPTURED 2 JANUARY 1942 — a date this card did not hold — and besides Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, already recorded, he was at P.G. 107 at TORVISCOSA, Udine, Italy. His prisoner number, 127477, matches this card exactly. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record 166808.

Prisoner-of-war camp: Stalag VII-A (code 7A), POW No. 127477. Source: Germany & German-Occupied Territories Imperial POW Alphabetical List, Section 4 (N.Z.), 2NZEF. Transcription via Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3632116, CC BY 4.0).

Confirmed prisoner of war (LRDG). Unit: 6 NZ Fd Regt. Source: List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War (Imperial POW Alphabetical List). Compiled by Victoria Passau, Auckland War Memorial Museum; Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3860962, CC BY 4.0).

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.

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