Member of the Māori Battalion. From Okaihau. Serial No. 25824. Son of Mr E N Bryers of Okaihau, New Zealand. Died 20 April 1943 at Tunisia.
Bryers, Thomas Peter Waiata, -1943
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World War, 1939-1945. Campaigns. Egypt. El Alamein
Date: 1942
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-076
Description: Some photographs include captions. Images of the 8th Army offensive of El Alamein showing: members of 28 Maori Battalion (Lt G Marsden, Lt J Aperahama, Capt J C Henare, Capt W Porter; C P Clarke of Kawakawa, T Bryers of Okaihau, W H Cooper of Kawakawa); Axis prisoners marching to Alexandria; heavy machine gun in action during an air raid; "Honey" tanks lined up (Lt I T van Asch of Blenheim); NZ Divisional Cavalry training; Crusader tanks; destroyed German 88mm anti-tank gun. Lt Gen B L Montgomery's visit to NZ Division to present decorations; taking salute during march past of 5th Brigade; General Freyberg with Winston Churchill; General Freyberg directing operations from his Stuart (Honey) tank during advance of Matruh; Rt Hon R G Casey's (British Minister of State in Middle East) visit to battle area and being introduced to Lt Gen Sir B Freyberg (with back to camera is Lt Gen Sir Leslie Morshead); NZ Field Ambulance bogged down in heavy rain inland from Fuka, Nov 1942; rocky machine gun post; medical orderly attending to minor injury; firing at Stuka pilots; Battle HQ NZ Division; truck drivers of NZ `B' Echelon watching stores dump burning; mess in the field, Jul 1942; troops training; POW. Convoys on the move near Sollum; Maori members of AA Battery; laying desert railway track; wreckage of Luftwaffe; burial of members of the crew of an anti-aircraft gun on Alamein front. Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).
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World War II, Maori soldiers, Western Desert, North Africa
Date: [Between 1939 and 1945]
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: 1/4-019365-F
Description: Three members of the World War II, Maori infantry in the Western Desert, North Africa. From left to right: P Clarke, T Bryers and W H Cooper. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative