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Te Paoro Te Kura

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Te Paoro Te Kura

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Te Paoro AWMM
  • Surname
    Te Kura AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    811794 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Taneatua, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs R. Bush (aunt), Ruatoki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
    • Married with children Public - Maria - Direct descendant - 28 September 2022 - I am one of many grandchildren my father is John Te Kura

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • I will keep searching koro, your life path may not be much to others but to know who you were as a kid where you come from so I can share with my children and pass on a healthy and strong line of your descendants. Help me koro find our seed
    Public - Maria - Direct descendant - 16 August 2022
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Sources

Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 15 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1945 to 31st December, 1945). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 15: WW2 140 AWMM
    • Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books. AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM
    • Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls J-force personnel from Italy Middle East to Japan. Archives New Zealand (R22440245) AWMM
      p.77 AWMM

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28 September 2022MariaPongaroaDirect descendant
16 August 2022MariaTararuasDirect descendant

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