Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Rangi Mawhete Collection
Date
1920s-1940s
Level of Current Record
Parent
Member Object
Related Object Notes
MS 96/39
Media
Technique
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Mawhete (Moffatt) Family
Content
1. Dick Murdoch
2. Gwen Webster and I .
3. Rotorua [group portrait taken in front of a Marae], March 1914
4. Xmas 1956 at 65 Reeling St. Dad & Mum & the children
5. [Snap shot of infant]
6. The presentation of the Maori address of welcome to the Prince of Wales at Palmerston North, (newspaper clipping)
7. "Near the Swiss border, near Como...on the way over [to England] after the Italian campaign was over" After May 1945
8. "Willie tickling me at 38, July 1943" William Moffatt and his sister Margaret, at Margaret's house, Ilford
9. They said we would go to Rome to see the Pope and we went...It must've been just after Florence. They sent a party down, you know, a truckload...It was a brigade arrangement (Sept 1944?)
10. Rangi Mawhete
11. There I am with a bunch of Yanks convalescing at San Sporito (?), a recreation camp where you were sent if you were wounded.
12. This was in Florence, where we were billeted...out of the weather...". August 1944
13. The 3 Moffatt boys (Joe, William, Alan). ca. 1930s
14. "Standing in the Tiger tank that's been knocked out. At the Po River...a big river that, hellava wide". April 1945
15. Alan's mother withy her grandson (Margaret's son Allan Harvey). Taken in Ilford, Eng. ca. 1943
16. The farm at Palmerston North
17. "After Trieste". After May 1945
18. "In frame, a big Yankee transit camp on the way over [to England]...after the Italian campaign was over..." After May 1945
19. An American transit camp taken in France. After May 1945
20. An American transit camp taken in France.
21. American transit camp in France. After May 1945
22. "Digging in, before Fiorli and Fuenza.." Nov 44.
23. The fellow in the centre was the Count before Forli...the same place as the digging in the picture...Nov 1944
24. "An 88 gun barrel...this was just a normal battle" Po River?. April 1945
25. Joe (left), Alan (right). My brother was killed at Immola [sic]...a long straight road. (taken later 1944?)
26. Italy - after Forli. Dec? 1944 [Alan Mawhete]
27. "Black hair, wavy...I wish I had it now", Italy after Forli. Dec 1944 [Alan Mawhete]
Public Access Text
Rangi Mawhete, son of William Moffatt (1838?-1880) and his second wife, Eruiri Manako (sic), married Kathleen McGlone. Their three sons served in the armed forces : William (1918- ) served with the King's Squadron as a Lancaster bomber pilot, Joseph (1920-1945) was a Spitfire pilot who was killed in action, and Alan (1924- ) served with the 28th Maori Battalion. See Rangi Mawhete papers for further biographical information [Ref. MS 96/93]
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Last Update
11 May 2023
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