Darkie Mura Haapu

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Darkie Mura AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Haapu AWMM

Nama Hōia

39213 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

15 March 1918

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Wāhi Whānau

Whangara, Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Karauria and Heni HAAPU of Whangara

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Whangara, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs H.W. Haapu (mother), Whangara, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

39213 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

28 (Maori) Battalion, Main Body AWMM

Matenga

30 Oct 1942 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Whangara Cemetery, Whangara, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Haapu.— Died in Wellington Hospital, on October 30, 1942, as a result of . wounds received in the Middle East, Private Mura (Darkie) Haapu.

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GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE 20932, 4 NOVEMBER 1942, PAGE 1

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/2921349
  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

• 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 76
• 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.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.