Henry Te Rupe Vercoe

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Henry Te Rupe AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Vercoe AWMM

Nama Hōia

34877 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Arawa, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

27 May 1907

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 13 August 2015 - Henry Te Reiwhati Vercoe's (his father) Military Record

Wāhi Whānau

Rotorua, NZ

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 13 August 2015 - Henry Te Reiwhati Vercoe's (his father) Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Henry Te Reiwhati Vercoe & Mary Aver nee' Barnett

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 13 August 2015 - Henry Te Reiwhati Vercoe's (his father) Military Record

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Henrietta Pearl Vercoe (wife), Poroporo, Whakatane, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

34877 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Timber contractor/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Second Lieutenant AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Lieutenant/Military Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

Henry Vercoe was the son of Henry R. Vercoe and Ava Vercoe, of Rotorua, Auckland, New Zealand. AWMM

Matenga

22 May 1941 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece AWMM 6. A. 7. 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
• 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
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/937154
  Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• 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 190
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• 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.
• 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.