Tuhura Hami

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Tuhura AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Hami AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Haami AWMM
• Tuhura HAAMI (aka JONES)
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Nama Hōia

39616 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1914

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Wāhi Whānau

NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Son of Mr. and Mrs. Whiti Hami, of Te Karaka

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Care of J. Graham, Pongakawa, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Whiti Jones (father), Te Karaka, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Greece AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

39616 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

Matenga

19 Oct 1941 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Private Tuhura Hami, presumed died on active service, previously missing, was a Te Karaka Maori, one of four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Whiti Hami of that township who served abroad with the Maori Battalion. He was 30 years of age when he enlisted among the first volunteers from this district, and had taken a leading part in Rugby football and other forms of sport. He, was posted missing in the Crete campaign.

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Athens Memorial, Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM
• Te Karaka War Memorial, corner of Main and Station Roads, Te Karaka, 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/2106440
  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 77
• 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.