Frank Rodney Brooking

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Frank Rodney AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Brooking AWMM

Nama Hōia

65272 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1913

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2023 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KCRN-YW2/frank-rodney-brooking-1913-1943

Wāhi Whānau

Te Araroa, East Coast, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2023 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KCRN-YW2/frank-rodney-brooking-1913-1943

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Oscar Brooking, of Te Araroa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/frank-rodney-brooking

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Waiomatatini, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs H. Brooking (wife), Ruatoria, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• 1941 Frank Rodney BROOKING married Hanna REEDY
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 23 June 2023 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KCRN-YW2/frank-rodney-brooking-1913-1943

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

65272 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

WW2
13 Dec 1941 AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Frank Brooking was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Oscar Brooking, of Te Araroa, New Zealand. AWMM

Matenga

27 Mar 1943 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia AWMM X. F. 7. AWMM

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

• 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/2182534
  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

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• 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.
  WW2 4: WW2 42
• 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.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.