Pua Eparaima

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Pua AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Eparaima AWMM

Nama Hōia

39210 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Rongo, Māori AWMM

Pono

Ringatū AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1908

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/pua-eparaima

Wāhi Whānau

Manutuke, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/pua-eparaima

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hoera and Tantahi Eparaima, of Manutuke

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/pua-eparaima

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Manutuke, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Kohai Eparaima (brother), Manutuke, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1941 AWMM Crete AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

39210 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, Second Echelon AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Pua Eparaima was the son of Hoera (Joel) Tama-titahi (Tantahi) Eparaima, of Manutuke

28 (Maori) Battalion, Main Body AWMM

Matenga

2 Jun 1941 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece AWMM 11. B. 9. 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/936670
  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. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 58
• 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.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.