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Cenotaph record

Grant Marunui

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  • Service number
    25933 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Grant Maranui AWMM
    • Maninui AWMM
    • Karaati Hone Parai Marunui AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Grant AWMM
  • Surname
    Marunui AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Grant Maranui AWMM
    • Maninui AWMM
    • Karaati Hone Parai Marunui AWMM
  • Service number
    25933 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1917 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM C/o Mrs A.M. Jury, Kauwhaka, Martinborough, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Marunui Papawai (mother), Papawai, Greytown, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Italy AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    25933 AWMM
  • Military service
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Training and Enlistment

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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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  • Husband of Heather Marunui, member of Land Army WW2

    Tried to join the navy in 1932, then the airforce in 1937 and finally joined the army after war broke out

    Member of signals platoon of 28 Maori Battalion.

    Marunui is quoted in the Auckland War Memorial Museum gallery 'Slogging up Italy' of 'Scars on the Heart', 'It was the bond between us that kept us together. If anything happened to one it would happen to the lot. The shock came later when someone was killed. It happened to me in my platoon, and you never thought it could happen to anybody.'

    Name misspelt in Scars II as Maninui.

    Karaati Hone Parai Marunui in BDM. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    1998 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 3: WW2 316 AWMM
    • Ordinary people kit : New Zealanders remember the Second World War. [resource kit]. (1995). Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs. AWMM
      Photographs are contained in the Ordinary people kit AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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