Walter James Cooper

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Walter James AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Cooper AWMM

Nama Hōia

6099 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

13th July 1911

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 April 2025 - NZ BDM Birth records

Wāhi Whānau

Kaitaia

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 April 2025 - Northern Advocate, 3 June 1941, Page 6

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Charles Wallis & Eliza COOPER

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 April 2025 - NZ BDM Birth records

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Post office, Kaingaroa, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs P.C.D. Cooper (wife), care of Mrs Barret, P.O. Box 1752, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• 1940 Walter James COOPER married Phyllis Charlotte Dorothy WALTON
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 April 2025 - NZ BDM Marriage records

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

6099 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Carrier/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

• WW2 POW - Greece AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag 383 (previously Oflag III-C), Hohenfels, Bavaria AWMM

Matenga

7 Nov 1973 AWMM

Urupā

Maunu Cemetery, Cemetery Road off State Highway 14, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• 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
• 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
• Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22817416
  Further Reference
• Elborough, Sophie. Upholding Māoritanga: Stories of Māori Prisoners of War in WWII . Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 16 April 2025. Updated: 17 April 2025.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/maori-pow
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 41
• 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.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.