John Bernard Magee

Trooper · NZ #17547 · R2 Patrol

Rank	Trooper
Service number	NZ #17547
Patrol	R2 Patrol
POW / KIA	PoW — Levitha, 24 Oct 1943
Record	https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/145778

What this roll records

Capture-date note: Imperial POW roll records capture as 25 Oct 1943 — one day after the 24 Oct 1943 action at Levitha (the Imperial list commonly dates formal capture to 25 Oct). Master retains 24 Oct 1943. Source: 2NZEF Imperial POW rolls (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0).

Cenotaph record linked. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, Levitha (24 Oct 1943): prisoner of war. Source: Roll of New Zealand (A) Squadron Casualties on Levitha, Brendan O’Carroll, "The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean".

Prisoner-of-war camp: Stalag IV-C (code 4C), POW No. 35818. 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).

Captured 15 July 1942 (also 25 October 1943); POW at Stalag IV-C, Wistritz bei Teplitz; POW serial 35818. Motor Mechanic in civilian life. Embarked/served with 2nd NZ Divisional Cavalry Regiment. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Full name John Bernard. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

New Zealanders in the Levita action, 24 October 1943: taken prisoner of war. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Kiwi Scorpions’ (Appendix IX, New Zealanders in the Levita action).

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Where this comes from

Missing info added from the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.
Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 4, p.233. Unit history: Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry; Mason, W.W. (1954). Prisoners of war. External links: Germany imperial POW list, section 4 (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/3955186 Also cited: List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War 1941-1945, AWMM Library MS 2009/8.

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