Lawrence Henry “Laurie” Lilley

Temporary Corporal · NZ #243424 · T2 Patrol

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.

Cenotaph-verified 27 Jul 2026 (record link added).

Grocery assistant in civilian life. Embarked/served with NZ Infantry Brigade. Known as Laurie. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, LRDG — T2 Patrol at disbandment, 10 December 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix IV, New Zealand (A) Squadron Disbandment Roll, 10 December 1943).

Grocery assistant in civilian life. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

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Where this comes from

• AKA added from the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll (missing information).
• Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 12, p.113. Also cited: 'SAS hosts LRDG's 55th annual reunion', Army News, 21 October 2003, p.9 (portrait).
• Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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