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Whaitakuta Tipene

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Pte # 804664 Whaitakuta TIPENE of Hicks Bay 11th Reinforcements of the 28th Maori BattalionWounded once - (M.I.D.) Mentioned in Dispatches

Whaitakuta TIPENE

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Whaitakuta AWMM
  • Surname
    Tipene AWMM
  • Ingoa
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  • Service number
    804664 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
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  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Hicks Bay, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs H. Tipene (grandmother), Hicks Bay, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 21 February 1944 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    804664 AWMM
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Training and Enlistment

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    WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
    Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM
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  • Age on enlistment

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Medical history

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Death

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  • Private Whaitakuta Tipene, a Hicks Bay boy. is also reported wounded. He was single on enlistment, and left for camp in February, 1942
    REF : TOLL OF ACTION
    GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21694, 21 APRIL 1945, PAGE 4
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023
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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.125 AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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04 August 2023Lorraine Mona Gisborne Researcher

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