Hurahanga Pohatu

Forenames

Hurahanga AWMM

Surname

Pohatu AWMM

Also known as

July AWMM

Service number

62649 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Waitakaro P.O., Ruatoria, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs R. Pohatu (mother), Waitakaro P.O., Ruatoria, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

62649 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  13 Dec 1941 AWMM
• WW2
  13 Dec 1941 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Salonike, Greece - VIII-B (later Stalag-344) Lamsdorf, Germany AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM

Listed as Hurahanga (July) Pohatu in Soutar (2008) AWMM

Death

4 Jan 2007 Public Source

Date of death

4 January 2007

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Age at death

85yrs

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Place of death

Gisborne, NZ

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Death notes

HURAHANGA J. POHATU 62649 2nd NZEF 28 Maori BTN PTE died 4.1.2007 aged 85 yrs

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Cemetery name

Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Grave reference

Block RSA32; Plot 76; Warrant # 22313

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 29 February 2016 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Related objects

External links

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/3955186
  Further Reference
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/4560909
  Further Reference
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html
  Further Reference

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 4: WW2 284
• Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
  Portrait published in Soutar (2008)
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.