Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Roderick Murdoch AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McKenzie AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Rod AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 64022 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW2 Waimiha, New Zealand AWMM
• Waimiha is a small settlement some 40 km North of Taumarunui.
  Public - Ian Banks - Researcher - 3 December 2020 - research

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mr R.H. McKenzie (father), Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 01 May 1941 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 64022 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• 34 Infantry Battalion AWMM
• Coastwatcher AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Farm manager/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Rangatira or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM 30 Infantry Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

WW2

Tuhinga hauora

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Executed by Japanese whilst a prisoner of war AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
New Zealand Infantry, 8 Brigade Group, Signals Corps, New Zealand Coastwatchers AWMM

Roderick McKenzie was the son of Roderick Hector McKenzie and of Catherine Jessie McKenzie (nee McKay), of Te Kuiti, King Country, New Zealand. AWMM

Matenga

15 Oct 1942 AWMM
Age  32 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Bourail Memorial, Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery, New Caledonia AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Betio Memorial, Tarawa, Kiribati AWMM
• Tarawa Coastwatchers Memorial AWMM
• Taumarunui War Memorial Hall, Hakiaha Street, Taumarunui, King Country, New Zealand.
  Public - Ian Banks - Researcher - 3 December 2020 - research

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Paci.html
  Sources Used
• Hall, D.O.W. (1950). Coastwatchers. In New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-1945 : episodes & studies Vol. 2. Wellington: Historical Publications Branch. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Epi-t1-g1-t7.html
  Sources Used
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2187330
  Sources Used
• Warren, Geraldine and Pine, Madison. Our Coastwatchers. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 21 April 2020
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/coastwatchers
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• 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 225
• Information kindly provided by family
  "Tarawa Outrage, Massacre by Japanese", N.Z. Herald, 23 Oct 1944 (copy of article in ACF27569)
• Personnel - Medals and decorations - Awards to Pacific Coast watchers (1942-1946), Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465310)
• Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.