James Samuel Johnson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

James Samuel AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Johnson AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

James Samuel Honotana JOHNSON

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 August 2026 - List WWII Maori Battalion Soldiers

Nama Hōia

62670 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Mataatua, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1914

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 April 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-samuel-johnson

Wāhi Whānau

NZ

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 April 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-samuel-johnson

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hohana and Motoi Johnson, of Opotiki

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 April 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-samuel-johnson

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM High Street, Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M. Johnson (wife), C/o Sister Jessie, 70 Union Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Millie Johnson, of Taneatua
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 April 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-samuel-johnson

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western Desert AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

62670 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Lance Corporal/Military Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

James Samuel Johnson was the son of Hohana and Motoi Johnson, of Opotiki; husband of Millie Johnson, of Taneatua

Identified as B and C Company (Soutar, 2008) AWMM

Matenga

4 Nov 1942 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM XI. J. 4. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Died of Wounds - L/Corpl. James Samuel Johnson, Opotiki, who was previously reported to have been wounded on active service, has died of wounds.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - The Opotiki News Tuesday, December 1, 1942.

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories 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/2116748
  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 180
• 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)
• 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.