Edward Ngatata Howell

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Edward Ngatata AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Howell AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Eddie AWMM

Nama Hōia

5742 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Arawa, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1908

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2026 - Estimated from age when he died - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/edward-ngatata-howell

Wāhi Whānau

NZ

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2026 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/edward-ngatata-howell

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Edward and Ngahuia Howell

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2026 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/edward-ngatata-howell

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Matata, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Olive Marr (sister), Post-office, Matata, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

North Africa AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

5742 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Barman/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Corporal/Military AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
Accidentally killed on active service AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Sergeant Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

Edward Howell was the son of Edward and Ngahuia Howell, of Matata

Portrait at http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/five-28th-battalion-boys-matata. Headstone photograph http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/edward-ngatatas-grave

Two brothers saw active service in WW2, Peter Mack Howell (21784 ) Edward Ngatata Howell (5742) who was killed in action in Egypt. AWMM

Matenga

20 Jul 1941 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Accidental Death AWMM

Urupā

Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt AWMM K. 76. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Official advice has been received of the death through injury of Sergeant E N. Howell, of Matata, Bay of Plenty. He was a member of the Maori Battalion and was stationed in the Middle East. “Eddy” Howell had a distinguished athletic career. He was in turn a Rugby representative for the Bay of Plenty, Poverty Bay, Hawke's Bay and then back to Bay of Plenty again. He represented Hawke’s Bay in 1931 and 1932. In 1936, he captained the New Zealand Maori team that toured to Fiji. Apart from Rugby, he won many championships on the tennis court, being in fact, one of the champions of the native race.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 July 2023 - WAR CASUALTIES
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXVIII, ISSUE 20617, 26 JULY 1941, PAGE 4

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/
  Sources Used
• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945. Personal page
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/soldier/edward-ngatata-howell
  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/2274257
  Sources Used

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 91
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• 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.