Jerry Atkins

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Jerry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Atkins AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Heremia Kawha AWMM
• Jeremaiha AWMM
• Jerry Kawha AWMM

Nama Hōia

811345 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs R. Kawha (mother), Ford Street, Opotiki, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 21 Feb 1944-31 Mar 1944 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Italy AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

811345 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Mooltan or Willem Ruys AWMM Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 11th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Matenga

24 Jul 1944 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Florence War Cemetery, Italy AWMM VII. F. 14. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Pte. Jeremaiha (Jerry) Kawha, only son of Mrs. Rangi Kawha, Ford Street. Pte. Jerry Kawha was killed in action serving with the Māori Battalion. He joined the Army soon after the outbreak of war, under his correct name, but was boarded out when it became known that he was under age. Being very anxious to serve his country he later again joined under the name of Atkins.

Opotiki News, Volume VII, Issue 784, 1 September 1944, Page 2 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• 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/2613652
  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
  Further Reference
• Opotiki News, Volume VII, Issue 784, 1 September 1944, Page 2
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OPNEWS19440901.2.8
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 13: WW2 7
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 7 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1942 to 31st March, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
• Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
  Portrait published in Soutar (2008)
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.