Te Rei Te Wera Rangihuna

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Te Rei Te Wera AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Rangihuna AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Tereitewera AWMM

Nama Hōia

817648 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1921

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-rei-te-wera-rangihuna

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Rota Rangihuna and Annie Rangihuna

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-rei-te-wera-rangihuna

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs K. Rangihuna (wife), Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Kumeroa Rangihuna, of Tikitiki
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-rei-te-wera-rangihuna

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

817648 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM

Son of Rota Rangihuna and Annie Rangihuna; husband of Kumeroa Rangihuna, of Tikitiki

Listed on Nominal Roll as Tereitewera AWMM

Matenga

10 Apr 1945 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Faenza War Cemetery, Italy AWMM IV. G. 10. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Private te Rei To Were Rnngihuna, killed in action, was also a single | man from the Matakaoa, his home being at Te Araroa, and not at Tikitiki as stated in the telegraphed message. He had not been long with the Maori Battalion, having been released from his reserved occupation as late as May, 1944.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - TOLL OF ACTION
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21694, 21 APRIL 1945, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• 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
  Sources Used
• 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
  Sources Used
• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2237755
  Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 14: WW2 81
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.