Victor Richard Daniel Evans
I mate atu i te 19 Dec 1941
- Nama Hōia
- W/3641 AWMM
- WWII W/36411 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Navy AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 Ordinary Telegraphist/Military AWMM Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Neptune AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Victor Richard Daniel AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Evans AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- W/3641 AWMM
- WWII W/36411 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
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- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Navy AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- W/3641 AWMM
- WWII W/36411 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
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- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW2 Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 Ordinary Telegraphist/Military AWMM
Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Neptune AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Victor Evans was the son of Daniel James and Gertrude Mary Evans of Maori Hill, Dunedin, Otago.
He was in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve from 12 Dec 1937 until 19 Dec 1941.
Mobilised 23 Aug 1939
He died when his ship, HMS Neptune, hit several mines in the sea off Tripoli and sank 19 December 1941.
Neptune's Legacy by Nixie Taverner. HMS Neptune was launched at Portsmouth on 31 January 1933. She was one of five 'Leander' class light cruisers completed between 1933 and 1935. Two others were HMS Achilles and Leander serving in the RNZN. They displaced 7,200 tons, could make 32 knots and carried eight 6 inch guns and 550 crew. The Neptune was in the Mediterranean from 1 December 1941 as part of Force K which was searching for Axis shipping, especially those taking supplies to Rommel in North Africa. Early on the 19th the ships of Force K ran into a minefield.The Neptune hit three or four mines and sank with only one survivor. At the same time the Aurora was badly damaged and Penelope slightly.Trying to reach Neptune to assist, the destroyer Kandahar was mined and had to be scuttled the following day. On the same day in Alexandria harbour the Queen Elizabeth with Admiral Cunningham on board and the Valiant were both badly damaged and sank.The Mediterranean Fleet battle squadron ceased to exist. Of the total crew of 766 there was only one survivor.He was rescued off a raft five days later by an Italian destroyer and spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 19 Dec 1941 AWMM
Age 21 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport Naval Base, HMNZS Philomel, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Stafforshire, England. Monument, to the men of HMS Neptune and HMS Kandahar AWMM
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Waters, S.D. (1956). The Royal New Zealand Navy. Wellington: Dept. Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Navy.html
Sources Used - Royal New Zealand Navy. HMS Neptune.
http://www.navy.mil.nz/naval-reserve/naval-reserve-history/neptune-reserve-hero.htm
Further Reference - The Neptune Association.
http://www.hmsneptune.com/history1.htm
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2563910
Sources Used - Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
Further Reference
- Waters, S.D. (1956). The Royal New Zealand Navy. Wellington: Dept. Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
- Ngā tuhinga
- Harker, J.S. (1991). Almost HMNZS Neptune. Wellington, N.Z.: Moana Press.
- Harker, J.S. (2001). The birth and growth of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Durham, England: Pentland Press.
- Taverner, N. (2003). Neptune's Legacy. Fleet Hargate, England: Arcturus Press.
- Information kindly provided by family
McGregor, J. & Clayton, D. (2005). Neptune and Kandahar Memorial. - Hudson, N. (2008). Sole survivor: one man's journey - biography of John Norman Walton, the sole survivor of HMS Neptune. England: The Memoir Club.
- St Clair, A. (2005). Mediterranean minefield: disaster of HMS Neptune. England: The Neptune Association.
- Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
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