Harry Partington

Sapper · NZ #28422

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).

Welder in civilian life. Embarked/served with 20th Field Company, N.Z. Engineers. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Original member of the Long Range Patrol (LRP), 1940 — listed with the “LRP” comment in the nominal roll, The Kiwi Scorpions (Brendan O'Carroll).

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Where this comes from

• Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 3, p.368; No. 5, p.164. Unit history: Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific; Cody, J.F. (1961). New Zealand Engineers, Middle East. Also cited: B-Force 8th Infantry Brigade Group Embarkation Roll, Archives NZ AAYS 8638 AD1/1421 (R22440171).
• Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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