The trees and plaques along Devonport Memorial Drive commemorate the following men from Devonport who lost their lives during the Second World War.
Surname | First Name(s) | Serial No. | Location of plaque |
Archibald | David | NZ412643 | Eastern side |
Armstrong | Charles Anthony | NZ401368 | Eastern side |
Baillie | Donald | 80939 | Eastern side |
Bartrum | Percy Harold | 23881 | Eastern side |
Bassett | Trevor Norman | NZ401719 | Eastern side |
Bennett | Peter Jack | 16375 | Eastern side |
Blackman | Douglas Arnold | 23542 | Western side |
Blamires | Ronald Garland | J/6951 R81025 | Eastern side |
Boate | Brian Patrick | NZ1592 | Western side |
Body | Douglas Alexander | 60222 | Western side |
Bond | Warren Clifton | 28108 | Western side |
Boswell-Kitching | Jack Lambert | NZ416966 | Western side |
Buchanan | John George | NZ415744 | Eastern side |
Buckley | Ross Cameron | NZ411206 | Western side |
Buckley | Thomas Wadeson | NZ413021 | Western side |
Caldwell | John Richard | 76304 | Eastern side |
Chaplin | Richard Alexander | 2992 | Western side |
Coleman | William Harcourt | NZ2526 | Eastern side |
Cooper | Howard | 2371 | Eastern side |
Crump | Douglas Ronald | 26370 | Eastern side |
Cullen | Gregory | P/K61213 | Eastern side |
Fletcher | Andrew Crawford | NZ42675 | Western side |
Gilchrist | Gordon George | 2361 | Western side |
Gray | Ian Lowrie | 36188 | Eastern side |
Hale | Laurence Eastmule | NZ42395 | Eastern side |
Harrison | John Roby | RNZVR | Eastern side |
Fletcher | Andrew Crawford | NZ42675 | Western side |
Herman | Dennis Arthur | 452201 | Western side |
Herrick | Roy Somerville | 1498 | Western side |
Holloway | Jack Rayson | 428511 | Western side |
Hunt | John Francis | NZ403548 | Western side |
Johnston | Robert Harvey | 65613 | Eastern side |
Jones | Frederick John | 67950 | Eastern side |
Kay | Harold | NZ404377 | Eastern side |
King | John Fraser | 25228 | Eastern side |
Latta | Selwyn | NZ41339 | Eastern side |
Leaity | Ernest Henry | 62075 | Western side |
Lyon | William John | 2574 | Western side |
Mackie | Sydney Colin Rive | NZ413713 | Eastern side |
Martin | Arthur John | L/T RNZVR | Western side |
McArthur | Kenneth | NZ425270 | Eastern side |
McCallum | Laurence Bruce | NZ422663 | Western side |
McDevitt | William Jack | 29364 | Western side |
Rasmussen | Kenneth Charles | NZ2425 | Eastern side |
Ryder | Laurence Edward | 35413 | Eastern side |
Skinner | Bruce James | NZ425199 | Western side |
Stevenson | Linton William | NZ404961 | Western side |
Stone | Brian Joseph | NZ43217 | Western side |
Upton | James Tasker | 23066 | Western side |
Walker | John | RNZN | Eastern side |
Walters | Henry George | NZ425377 | Eastern side |
Waters | David Owen | NZ405350 | Eastern side |
Weight | Desmond Vaughan | 1071 | Eastern side |
Wheeler | Geoffrey Owen | 2657 | Western side |
Whelan | William Groves | 62544 | Eastern side |
Williams | Edwin John | NZ39298 | Western side |
Wilson | Norman | NZ413529 | Western side |
Wilson | John Ivan | 60163 | Western side |
Wood | Noel Herbert | NZ437361 | Western side |
Wood | Trevor | Western side |
Find out more about those listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database
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