Allan Leicester Taylor
I mate atu i te 15 Oct 1942
- Nama Hōia
- WWII 297352 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM New Zealand Coastwatchers AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Allan Leicester AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Taylor AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWII 297352 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- WW2 care of Awarua Radio, Private Bag, Invercargill AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
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- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWII 297352 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- Coastwatcher AWMM
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
For exemplary conduct in coast-watching and communication duties in the Gibert Islands area in the face of the enemy, despite overwhelming odds and the knowledge that relief or escape was impossible. AWMM
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW2 Radio operator/Civilian Ballot List
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
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Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
- WW2
- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Executed by Japanese whilst a prisoner of war AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
New Zealand Coastwatchers AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of William Charles Taylor and of Caroline Taylor (nee Hay), of Waimate, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Served as a Coastwatcher on Maiana as part of the Gilbert Group.
"The same day (26 September 1942) three (Japanese) warships visited Beru (Island) where the two operators, Lieutenant A.L. Taylor and Corporal T.C. Murray, sent their final message: "Three enemy warships, Good Luck", before destroying their equipment and fleeing into the jungle, hoping to escape later by canoe or launch. Because of Japanese threats of revenge on the natives these two men gave themselves up on 3 October, to suffer further pain of ill treatment from their captors.The fate of these men (Japanese P.O.W.'s) was unknown until the islands were recaptured at great cost by an American landing force on 20 November 1943. Then it was learned that when an American machine from an aircraftcarrier bombed Tarawa on 15 October 1942, the seventeen New Zealanders and five European civilians were killed and their bodies thrown into a pit. Not all the details were revealed until a Court of Enquiry was established on 16 October 1944, and evidence collected from the available witnesses. All of them confirmed the brutal execution of the New Zealand soldiers and operators." - Official History of New Zealand in the Second World war. "The Pacific" by O.A. Gillespie, 1952, pp. 234 and 235. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 15 Oct 1942 AWMM
Age 22 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Bourail Memorial, Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery, New Caledonia AWMM
- Tarawa Coastwatchers Memorial AWMM
- Musick Memorial Radio Station, Bucklands Beach: Coastwatchers roll of honour AWMM
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Paci.html
Sources Used - Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2187491
Sources Used - Warren, Geraldine and Pine, Madison. Our Coastwatchers. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 21 April 2020
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/coastwatchers
Further Reference
- Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
- Ngā tuhinga
- The New Zealand Herald
"Tarawa Outrage, Massacre by Japanese", N.Z. Herald, 23 Oct 1944 (copy of article in ACF27569) - New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940–1945. [Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette.] CD-ROM. Ravensbourne, Dunedin, New Zealand: Colonial CD Books, n.d.
- Information kindly provided by family
- Personnel - Medals and decorations - Awards to Pacific Coast watchers (1942-1946), Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465310)
- Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- The New Zealand Herald
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