Walker Culling Brunton

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Walker Culling AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Brunton AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Walter AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 26654 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

27 Mar 1906 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

• Register of Birth 1906/10059
  Public - Dulcie - Other Relative - 23 April 2015 - Register of Birth 1906/10059
• March 27, 1906
  Public - Dulcie - Other Relative - 23 April 2015 - New Zealand Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Kaukapakapa, Rodney, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs S. Brunton (mother), Kaukapakapa, Rodney, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 26654 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• 29th (Mixed) Battalion AWMM
• B Force, 8th Brigade, New Zealand 3rd Division AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Driver/Military AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private AWMM 29 Infantry Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM

Son of Herbert William and Sarah Ann Brunton, of Hatuma, Hawke's Bay

Listed as Walker Culling Brunton by CWGC and also the Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Listed as Walter on Nominal Roll 3. Next of kin listed in the Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945 as Mrs S. Brunton and by CWGC as son of Herbert William and Sarah Ann Brunton, of Hatuma, Hawke's Bay AWMM

Matenga

27 Oct 1942 AWMM
Age  36 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM Zealand V. G. 6. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Silverdale RSA, 43A Vipond Road, Stanmore Bay, Silverdale 0932 AWMM
• Silverdale RSA, 43A Vipond Road, Stanmore Bay, Silverdale 0932 AWMM
• Eketahuna District High School Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
  Public - Elli - Researcher - 8 June 2020 - Eketahuna Primary School Centennial and D.H.S. Re-Union, published 1979

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• 28 (Maori) Battalion Roll of Honour originally published in Cody (1956). Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor-_N100649.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/2092597
  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. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 61
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls B-force 8th infantry brigade group [New Zealand Military Forces - "B" Force - Embarkation Roll]. Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1421 (R22440171)
• Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.