Eruera Dennis Hamon

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Eruera Dennis AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Hamon AWMM

Nama Hōia

39202 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AWMM

Whānautanga mai

8 Feb 1920 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Henare (Henry) HAMON & Riria (Lydia) Maria Sawyers

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 31 October 2015 - Research

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 30 Dec 1939 AWMM 10 Waverley Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Henare Hamon (father), 10 Waverley Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 01 May 1940 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

39202 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1939-1945 Star AWMM
• Africa Star AWMM
• Defence Medal AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 30 Dec 1939 AWMM
Age  19 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

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 11 inches AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  half caste AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Black AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  brown AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Eruera Hamon was the son of Henare Hamon and Riria Hamon (nee Sawyer) of Gisborne, New Zealand.

Entered Camp 26 January 1940, embarked 1 May 1940 for Scotland, and arrived in Egypt 4 March 1941.

Wounded in action between 18 and 30 November 1941.

He sketched "The Spirit of the Bayonet" as part of a 2 NZEF art competition. A copy is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Armoury file. Changed birthdate to enlist, 8 February 1918 is incorrect. 28 (Maori) Battalion, Main Body. AWMM

Matenga

30 Nov 1941 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM 9.H.6 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Advice was received by Mr. Henry Hamon, Waverly street, Gisborne, on Monday, that his son Eruera (Dennis) Hamon, died of wounds on November 30. Private Hamon enlisted at the age of 19 and before leaving for overseas with the main body of the Maori Battalion, was an employee of the Gisborne Refrigerating Company. He was connected with station 2ZM, and prior to his enlistment, acted as announcer for the Hawaiian session. He was a keen follower of sport, particularly boxing, at which lie showed great promise. Private Hamon was wounded in both the Greece and Cretan campaigns and again in Libya, from which wounds lie eventually died. He was very popular with his company.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 April 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE 20669, 21 JANUARY 1942, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Gisborne War Memorial

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 April 2023 - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/gisborne-region-first-world-war-memorial

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. Headstone image and biographical details
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/eruera-dennis-hamons-grave#comment-202
  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/2116247
  Sources Used
• "The Spirit of the Bayonet" by Pte Eruera Dennis Hamon - C Company 1941
  https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/spirit-bayonet-pte-eruera-dennis-hamon-c-company-1941
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• 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)
• 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 78
• Murphy, W.E. (1961). The relief of Tobruk. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.