Te Ua Keepa

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Te Ua AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Keepa AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Teua AWMM

Nama Hōia

811116 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1913

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/teua-keepa

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Merepeka and Toropine Keepa, of Te Kaha

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/teua-keepa

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Te Kaha, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs N. Keepa (wife), Te Kaha, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 21 Feb 1944-31 Mar 1944 AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Ngawiki Keepa, of Te Kaha.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/teua-keepa

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Italy AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

811116 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Mooltan or Willem Ruys AWMM Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 11th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Son of Merepeka and Toropine Keepa, of Te Kaha; husband of Ngawiki Keepa, of Te Kaha

Listed on the Nominal Roll as Teua and as Te Ua in Soutar (2008) AWMM

Matenga

3 Aug 1944 AWMM
Age  32 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

3 August 1944

Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

Pakeke i te matenga

Age 32

Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

Wāhi Mate

Italy

Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

Te momo matenga

• Killed on Active Service AWMM
• Killed in Action
  Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

Urupā

Florence War Cemetery, Italy AWMM VII. B. 13. AWMM

Ingoa o te urupā

Florence War Cemetery

Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

Ingoa maumaharatanga

PTE Te Ua Keepa

Public - Tamati - Direct descendant - 23 April 2020 - Family history

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/2614387
  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. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 13: WW2 65
• 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.