Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Michael AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Menzies AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 63994 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

15 Nov 1919 Births, Deaths and Marriages

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Pre 1941 AWMM 13 Springfield Rd, Auckland AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mrs K. Daly (aunt), 4621 Park Boulevard, Oakland, California AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 1941 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 63994 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Coastwatcher AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
  08 Nov 1945 AWMM
  London Gazette: For exemplary conduct in coast-watching and communication duties in the Gibert Islands area in the face of the enemy, despite overwhelming odds and the knowledge that relief or escape was impossible. AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.244 Packer and storeman/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.244

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.244 30th (Mixed) Battalion 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.244 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

WW2 POW - Zentsuji Camp, Zentsuji, Shikoku Islands, Japan AWMM
Jan 1942 AWMM

Served as a Coastwatcher on Pikatias part of the Gilbert Group and was taken as a Prisoner of War by Japanese forces. AWMM

Matenga

1 Oct 1999 Auckland City Council

Urupā

Waikaraka Cemetery, 1 Alfred Street, Onehunga, Auckland AWMM Area 5, Block F, Plot 427 AWMM

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

Warren, Geraldine and Pine, Madison. Our Coastwatchers. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 21 April 2020
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/coastwatchers
Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.244
• Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  p.233
• Beattie, P.J. and Pomeroy, M.J. (2016). Gallant Acts and Noble Deeds: New Zealand army honours and awards for the Second World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Fair Dinkum Publications.; P.J. Beattie and M.J. Pomeroy, 2016.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Personnel - Medals and decorations - Awards to Pacific Coast watchers (1942-1946), Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465310)
• Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.