Second World War · roll in progress
The Anzacs WW2 Roll Call
The first names on our Second World War roll, filed by service. This is a small start built only from open, cited records. Many more are coming.
This roll is in progress
About 140,000 New Zealanders served overseas in the Second World War (NZHistory). This first roll holds 0 of them: the New Zealanders that Wikidata records as taking part in the war. Most are notable people, so it leans to officers, airmen and decorated men. It is not yet a full roll of service or of the war dead.
Every field comes from that person’s Wikidata record, linked on each row. Wikidata is released as CC0 public domain. We have asked Auckland Museum for Online Cenotaph WW2 access, and the full service roll will be added when it arrives. See the WW2 audit for official figures against our count.
Sources
Names, dates, place of death, service branch, rank, unit and burial place: Wikidata (CC0), people with country of citizenship New Zealand and conflict Second World War. Query: tools/ww2-wikidata.rq. Where a burial place matches a New Zealand cemetery in our LINZ cemetery directory, it links to that The Anzacs WW2 Roll CallWW2 auditThe Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call page. Wikidata has no plot numbers, so Location in cemetery stays blank until a source gives it.