Dick Coleman

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Dick AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Coleman AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Hiki AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 811094 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Mataatua, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1923

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/dick-coleman

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Tuhi and Te Kohi Coleman, of Lower Waiaua, Opotiki, BOP

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/dick-coleman

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW2 Lower Waiawa, New Zealand AWMM
• Lower Waiaua, Opotiki, BOP
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/dick-coleman

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mr T. Coleman (father), Lower Waiawa, Bay of Plenty, 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

WWII 811094 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

Named as Hiki (Dick) in Soutar (2008)

Identified as B and C Company (Soutar, 2008) AWMM

Matenga

15 Jan 1945 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Forli War Cemetery, Italy AWMM IV, 13, 13 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/2206827
  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. (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 26
• 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)
• Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.