Te Maaka Waaka

Forenames

Te Maaka AWMM

Surname

Waaka AWMM

Service number

65391 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Kāti Huirapa, Kāi Tahu, Ngā Iwi o Tākitimu, Tākitimu, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Birth

1919 AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1919

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-waaka

Birth notes

Son of Hone and Mere Waaka, of Temuka

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-waaka

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM C/o Ellis & Burnand, Ongarue, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Miss N. Waaka (not stated), Temuka, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

65391 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Corporal/Military AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, D Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  26 Aug 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Dulag VIII-A, Gorlitz, Germany AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-A, Gorlitz, Poland AWMM

Medical notes

31 Mar 1945 AWMM Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Killed whilst a Prisoner of War AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, D Company AWMM

Son of Hone and Mere Waaka, of Temuka New Zealand.

Miss N. Waaka, Te Muka (Auckland Province Roll of Honour) AWMM

Death

31 Mar 1945 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Berlin, Germany AWMM 10. A. 10. AWMM

Obituary

KILLED IN ACTION

Private Te Maaka Waaka, who was killed in action, was born at the Arowhenua Pa on December 4, 1919. He was the youngest son of the late Teone Te Maaka Waaka and Mere Waaka and was a direct descendant of the Ngati Huirapa tribe, Ngati Huirapa being the founder and chief of Arowhenua Maori Pa. He was educated at the Arowhenua Native School and after working in this district left for Mananui, where he worked for three years, enlisting in February, 1941. He is survived by three brothers, Te Hira Harold Waaka (Timaru), Tamati (Christchurch) and Whiteford (Patea), and his sisters Neta Waaka (Christchurch) and Mrs Esther Johnston (Arowhenua). (KILLED IN ACTION
Timaru Herald, Volume CLII, Issue 22375, 12 September 1942, Page 4) AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  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
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2761309
  Sources Used
• 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
• KILLED IN ACTION, Timaru Herald, Volume CLII, Issue 22375, 12 September 1942, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19420912.2.41
  Further Reference

References

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 5: WW2 216
• 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.
• Deaths While Prisoner of War - Navy, Army, Air Force and Civilians [WW2 NZ POW Deaths], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152).
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• HMNZT Giessen. (1919). The ventilator: H.M.N.Z.T. “Giessen”, August 1919 (C. G. E. Harker, Ed.; H. S. B. Ribbands & E. H. Greenhow, Sub-eds.). 1NZEF. Ferguson and Osborn Ltd.