Trooper · NZ #1151 · T Patrol
| Rank | Trooper |
|---|---|
| Service number | NZ #1151 |
| Patrol | T Patrol |
| Known as | “Wynn” |
| Record | https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C143314 |
DUPLICATE RECORD MERGED (2026). The roll held this man twice — once with his service number and once without it, under a variant spelling of the surname. The entry with no number could not be caught by the shared-number test that found the earlier duplicates, nor by the photograph test, because it had neither. It was found by asking whether the roll already held him with a number. This card is the survivor; the discarded entry read “Wynn, Jim”. BOTH ENTRIES ARE DOCUMENTED ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE LONG RANGE PATROL IN 1940, and both are Divisional Cavalry men. The discarded card carried the note “Added from LRP Roll: Dvr T Patrol; returned Div Cav” from the Original LRP Nominal Roll of 5 December 1940; this card is recorded as an original LRP member in Brendan O’Carroll’s “The Kiwi Scorpions”, and its Museum record is sourced to Loughnan’s “Divisional Cavalry”. The surnames differ by a single trailing e, and T Patrol comes across from the discarded entry.
Original member of the Long Range Patrol (LRP), 1940 — listed with the “LRP” comment in the nominal roll, The Kiwi Scorpions (Brendan O'Carroll).
Online Cenotaph record found in August 2026 by searching the service number, on a card that until now held nothing beyond the roll entry. A BARMAN in civilian life; he embarked as a Trooper. HE DIED ON 1 SEPTEMBER 1965, AGED 55, and is buried in ANDERSONS BAY R.S.A. CEMETERY, Dunedin, Block 31S, Plot 1. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record C143314.
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.
Added from LRP Roll: Dvr T Patrol; returned Div Cav. Source: LRP Roll (Original LRP Nominal Roll as at 5 Dec 1940, Capt L H Browne).
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