Archibald Joseph Penhall

Trooper · NZ #565573 · T2 Patrol

What this roll records

Aged 33 at death. Buried/commemorated: Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens (13. B. 19.). POW at the Luftwaffe Lazarett, Athens; died of wounds while a prisoner of war. Shepherd in civilian life. Embarked/served with New Zealand Infantry Brigade. Son of John and Jeane Penhall (nee Siddall); husband of Nita Penhall, of Campbell's Bay, Auckland. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

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

Prisoner of War 25/10/43. Source: Brendan O’Carroll.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, Levitha (24 Oct 1943): prisoner of war (captured 25 Oct 1943); died of wounds while PoW 28 Oct 1943. Source: Roll of New Zealand (A) Squadron Casualties on Levitha, Brendan O’Carroll, "The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean".

LRDG Roll of Honour (Aegean 1943): died of wounds 28.10.43, T2 Patrol. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, "The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean" (Appendix III, LRDG Roll of Honour: The Aegean Operations 1943). (master previously recorded R1 Patrol).

CWGC: Trooper Archibald Joseph Penhall, service no. 565573, New Zealand Armoured Corps (Divisional Cavalry Regt), attached Long Range Desert Group. Died 28 October 1943, aged 33 (died of wounds as a prisoner of war after Levitha; captured 25 October 1943). Buried at Phaleron War Cemetery, grave 13.B.19, Greece. Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Kiwi Scorpions (Brendan O'Carroll): Tpr A. J. Penhall — shepherd; born NZ, 14 Mar 1910; prisoner of war 25 Oct 1943; died of wounds while a prisoner, 28 Oct 1943.

Sting of the Scorpion (Brendan O'Carroll) — the assault on Levita: Levita, 23–24 Oct 1943: badly wounded when a stick grenade burst in his face; surrendered under a white flag with the wounded and died of his wounds on 28 Oct 1943.

Mortally wounded taking the ridge on Levita (24 October 1943); died of wounds as a prisoner, 28 October 1943. Source: ‘Invasion of the Dodecanese Islands’ (Battle of Leros / Assault on Levita), Episodes & Studies Vol. 1 (NZ official war history).

Shepherd; born NZ, 14 Mar 1910. Prisoner of war 25 Oct 1943; died of wounds while a prisoner, 28 Oct 1943. Source: Episodes & Studies Vol. 1 (biographical notes).

LRDG Roll of Honour, the Aegean 1943: Trooper, killed in action 28 October 1943, T2 Patrol. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix III, LRDG Roll of Honour: the Aegean Operations 1943).

New Zealanders in the Levita action, 24 October 1943: died of wounds as a prisoner of war, 28 October 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Kiwi Scorpions’ (Appendix IX, New Zealanders in the Levita action).

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

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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. 12, p.152. Unit history: Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry; Mason, W.W. (1954). Prisoners of war; McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. External links: Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2240520 Also cited: Deaths While Prisoner of War, Archives NZ AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152).

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