Claude Clarence Breen

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Claude Clarence AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Breen AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Pirini AWMM
• Claud Clarence BREEN
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/594 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

12th June 1891

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Wāhi Whānau

Auckland

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Michael & Annie BREEN

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Eunice Phoebe Breen (wife), Coromandel, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Eunice Phoebe nee' Atkinson
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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/594 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Mentions in diary that he is nursed by 'Bungy' Newell's sister whilst in hospital - Lyna Todd Newell, 22/153, NZANSC. AWMM

The Auckland Museum Library's manuscripts collection holds a typed transcript of Breen's war diary covering a period from 10 February 1915 to 9 February 1916. [Ref. MS 2002/150]

Breen was the Native Contingent's Pay Clerk (the contingent's name for him was 'Pirini') and was with them at Gallipoli. However, while Breen was closely associated with the contingent he does not mention specific names. AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22278790
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 75
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.