Parekura McLean

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Parekura AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McLean AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Paddy McLean AWMM
• Parekura Makarini AWMM

Nama Hōia

25922 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. abt 1919

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/parekura-mclean

Wāhi Whānau

East Coast, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/parekura-mclean

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Epanaimo and Makere Waikare McLean, of Waitakaro (Hiruharama), Ruatoria

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/parekura-mclean

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Care of T. Holden, Rimuroa Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr E. McLean (father), Post-office, Waitakaro, Ruatoria, 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

25922 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private 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

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Parekura McLean was the son of Epanaimo and Makere Waikare McLean, of Waitakaro (Hiruharama), Auckland, New Zealand. AWMM

Matenga

23 Nov 1941 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM 9. F. 4. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

The latest list of New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualties contains the names of seven Gisborne and East Coast soldiers killed in action and three prisoners of war. They include: - McLean, .Pte. Parekura. Father, Mr. E. McLean, Waitakaro, P. 0., Ruatoria.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 July 2023 - DEATH OF 17 MEN
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE 20683, 6 FEBRUARY 1942, PAGE 2

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/2057621
  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.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 305
• 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)