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Sub-Lieutenant (A) DESMOND NELSON ELWOOD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve

803 Sqdn. H.M.S. Formidable.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND

Panel 8.

New Zealand

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Ira Nelson and Edith Mary Anne Elwood, of Mount Eden, Auckland.
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