Heremia Riini

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Heremia AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Riini AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Jerry AWMM

Nama Hōia

65251 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. 1918

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Wāhi Whānau

Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hone Riini, and of Ani Matemoana Riini (nee Waititi), of Whakatane

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM R.D., Whakatane, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs A. Riini (mother), R.D., Whakatane, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western Desert AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

65251 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, 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!

Son of Hone Riini, and of Ani Matemoana Riini (nee Waititi), of Whakatane

Brothers Ihaia (6175) and Heremia (65251) were both killed in the war.

Name Jerry listed in Soutar (2008)

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

Matenga

16 Dec 1941 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya AWMM 6. C. 7. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Aged 24 years, Pte Heremia (Jerry) Riini of Paroa, was born at Whakatane, and later educated at the Native School, Cape Runaway. He completed his schooling at Paroa Native School when he stayed with his parents, Mr and Mrs J. Riini of Piripai. Returning to Cape Runaway he ran a farm for a period. A keen Rugby player he was a prominent Poroporo representative, and also took up amateur boxing. He was early accepted for service overseas with the Maori Battalion, being the first Maori to enlist from Cape Runaway but, while on his way to camp became involved in a serious accident which confined him to the Whakatane hospital for a long period. Upon recovery he was rejected as unfit but upon his fifth application was .finally accepted. He left with; the Sixth Echelon and linked up with the Maori Battalion in the Middle East. He fell at the assault upon Gazala on December 16. He has two brothers overseas, in the person of Sgt Ihaia Riini and L/Cpl Erueti Riini, both of whom left with the Second Echelon and went through the Grecian and Cretan campaigns. The latter brother has since been reported wounded in Libya. Another brother Pte J. Riini is at present in camp training for overseas service.

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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/2382994
  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. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 4: WW2 299
• 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.