John Potatu

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

John AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Potatu AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Te Aotipu Paraone AWMM

Nama Hōia

25987 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1906

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 30 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/john-potatu

Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 30 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/john-potatu

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Wi Paraone and Ngahuia Hawera, of Tahoka, Makaraka, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 30 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/john-potatu

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Makaraka, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs W. Perana (stepsister), Makaraka, Gisborne, 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

25987 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Sergeant AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Sergeant AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Listed with the name Te Aotipu Paraone in Souta (2008) AWMM

Matenga

28 Mar 1944 AWMM
Age  38 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Cassino War Cemetery, Italy AWMM X. C. 5. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Died of Wounds— Previously Reported Died on Active Service' - Potatu, Sgt. John, Gisborne.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 October 2023 - ROLL OF HONOUR - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21403, 13 MAY 1944, 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/
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2609888
  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. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 4: WW2 286
• 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.