Wetini Mio

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Wetini AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Mio AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Jock AWMM

Nama Hōia

802608 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

Born 1920

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/wetini-mio

Wāhi Whānau

Torere, East Coast

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Reme Mio (Herewini Mio) and Ema Ratia, of Torere

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Torere, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr R. Mio (father), Torere, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 21 Jul 1943 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Italy AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

802608 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Dairy Farm Hand/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Nieuw Amsterdam AWMM 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

Wetini Mio was the son of Reme Mio (Herewini Mio) and Ema Ratia, of Torere, New Zealand AWMM

Matenga

1 Aug 1944 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

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

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/2379108
  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. (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 135
• 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)