Wakatahuri Pirini

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Wakatahuri AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Pirini AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Waka AWMM
• Waha AWMM

Nama Hōia

39162 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

18 August 1918

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Wāhi Whānau

Reporua REPORUA, near Ruatoria

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Reporoa, Waiapu County, New Zealand AWMM
• Reporua, near Ruatoria (correction to spelling)
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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

dairy farmer

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Uri kiritahi

• Mr N. Thompson (uncle), Reporoa, Waiapu County, New Zealand AWMM
• Mr N Thompson of Reporua, Waiapu County
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western Desert AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

39162 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Dairy farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Name appears as Waha in Nominal Rolls, as Waka in Commonwealth War Graves AWMM

Matenga

27 Aug 1942 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM XIX. F. 25. 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/2211185
  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. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 149
• 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)