MEXTED, Milton Francis +

Son of Stephen William Mexted & Eliza Champion

b. 1907 NZ - d. 1941 GREECE

World War II, 1939-1945 Serial No.: 4477 First Known Rank: Private Rank Last Held: Driver Occupation before Enlistment: Clerk Next of Kin: Mrs E Mexted (mother), Tawa Flat, Wellington, New Zealand Marital Status: Married Enlistment Address: Tawa Flat, Wellington, New Zealand Military District: Wellington Body on Embarkation: Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 1st Echelon Last Unit Served: New Zealand Army Service Corps, Petrol Company Place of Death: Crete Date of Death: 25 May 1941 Age at Death: 34 Cause of Death: Died of wounds whilst a Prisoner of War Cemetery Name: Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece Grave Reference: 6. A. 15 Biographical Notes: Milton Mexted was the son of Stephen William and Eliza Mexted, of Tawa Flat, Wellington, New Zealand; husband of Lucy Maud Mexted, of Paekakariki, Wellington Sources Used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org Kidson, A (1961). Petrol Company. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Petr.html

Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Nominal Roll No 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940)

Crete, Greece (1941)

Died of wounds in prisoner of war camp.

Source: Auckland Cenotaph