Toka Rarangi Poa

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

• Toka Rarangi AWMM
• Tokararangi
  Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - Registration form for Active Service.
  I am also named after my grandfather and our name comes from his birth place - Tokararangi, on the East Coast of New Zealand

Ingoa whānau

Poa AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Toka

Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - I am named after my grandfather and also called Toka

Nama Hōia

39197 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - Attestation for Service form

Whānautanga mai

2 Oct 1915 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

2nd October 1915

Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military form for Active Service

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Te Whakaotinga (Oti) Poa and Kararaina Poa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tokararangi-poa

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Matarau Station, Hicks Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs H. Poa (wife), Te Araroa, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Mariata Poa, of Tikitiki
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 October 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tokararangi-poa

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1941 AWMM Crete AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

39197 AWMM

Te urunga

• WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• Grandad was attested at Ruatoria and marched into Palmerton North Camp on 26th January 1940 - coinci
  Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - History Sheet

Pakeke i te whakaurunga

24

Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - Registration form for Active Service - date of birth - Oct 2nd 1915

Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

Grandad worked as a station hand for Mr C.R.E Wood at Mataraua Station in Hicks Bay, New Zealand

Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - Registration form for Active Service

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM
• Embarked from NZ on 1.5.40
  Disembarked at England on 19.6.40
  Embarked from UK on 4.1.41 ???
  Disembarked at Egypt on 4.3.41
  Embarked to join Lustre Force on 28.3.41
  Reported safe in Crete on 18.5.41
  Killed in action on 23.5.41
  Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - NZ Military Forces - History Sheet

Tuhinga hauora

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Shot in head on 42nd street, Crete
  Public - Tokararangi Erin Poa - Direct descendant - 23 August 2016 - 28maoribattalion/.or.nz/mi/memory/harry-mackey-carefree-shepard-O-C-CCOY

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

• Toka Poa was the son of Oti Poa and Kararaina Poa; husband of Mariata Poa, of Tikitiki, New Zealand. AWMM
• I am Tokararangi Poa's grand daughter. His wife's name was Hariata, not Mariata. Tokararangi had two sons, Mike (may be Michael) and my father Te Whakaotinga Poa
  Public - Roma - Other Relative - 8 April 2015 - Information from my life experience... we actually called nana, nana Harriet, whose maiden name is Farr.

Matenga

23 May 1941 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece AWMM 6. A. 11. AWMM

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/937009
  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 150
• 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)
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.