Te Whanau Kangaro Kitepo Kaui

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Te Whanau Kangaro Kitepo AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Kaui AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Bronco Kaui AWMM
• Gangaro AWMM

Nama Hōia

802013 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1913

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-whanau-kangaro-kitepo-kaui

Wāhi Whānau

East Coast, Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Ngawaiwera Hienga KAUI and Heneti Kaui, of MANGATUNA

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Pera (uncle), Maungatuna, Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 21 Jul 1943 AWMM Legally Separated AWMM
• husband of Milli Matekai Kaui
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-whanau-kangaro-kitepo-kaui

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Italy AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

802013 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

2nd Maori Battalion AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Nieuw Amsterdam AWMM Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 10th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa & Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

Kitepo Kaui was the son of Ngawaiwera Hienga Kaui and Heneti Kaui, of Mangatuna; husband of Milli Matekai Kaui, of Tokomaru Bay.

Name misspelt in the Nominal Roll as Gangaro. Name recorded as Bronco Kaui in Soutar (2008)

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

Matenga

3 Aug 1944 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Florence War Cemetery, Italy AWMM VII. A. 3. AWMM

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

• 28 (Maori) Battalion Roll of Honour originally published in Cody (1956). Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor-_N100649.html
  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
  Sources Used
• 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/2614382
  Sources Used
• Paterson, Lachy. (24 October 2020). The forgotten Maori Battalion. maorihomefront.nz
  https://www.maorihomefront.nz/en/whanau-stories/the-forgotten-maori-battalion/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• The Weekly News
  1944
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 12: WW2 103
• 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.
• Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books.
• Ko te Reo Huringa Tau o te Ope Maori Tuarua, i noho ki Remuera, Ohaeawai, 1942-43: The Anniversary Magazine of the Second Maori Battalion, Remuera, Ohaeawai 1942-1943. Patrick Smyth Papers, MS-2002-147, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
• Nominal Roll of Members of the 2nd Maori Battalion, 26th January 1943. Part of the 2nd Maori Battalion Anniversary Magazine. (MS-2002-147). Auckland War Memorial Museum.