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Ponaute Busby

Ingoa whānau
Busby
Ingoa tuatahi
Ponaute

World War 2

Tau Rangatū
25823
Tūnga
Private
Wāhi noho
Pukepoto, Kaitaia, New Zealand
Whanaunga tino tata i te wā o te kuhunga
Mrs R. Busby (mother), Pukepoto, Kaitaia, New Zealand

Takupu (2)

Submitted by Busby on Sun, 19/09/2010 - 18:44

Ponaute Bon Busby passed away in Auckland in 1999 and is laid to rest at Rangihaukaha Urupa, Pukepoto.

Submitted by Andrew Holyoake on Tue, 11/06/2024 - 14:25

Ponaute Busby was captured at Sphakia on 1/6/1941, and processed in Kreta VI with POW number 5443. In October/November 1941 he was at a POW camp in Tymbakion, Crete, where he was doing forced labour, with around 200 other men. Here he signed a pair of shorts, that were brought back from the war. He would have been shipped off Crete ~ 4th January 1942.

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