Raniera Dan Pohatu

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Raniera Dan AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Pohatu AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Raniera AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 814941 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1922

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Wāhi Whānau

Manutuke, Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Haiuti and Miriama Pohatu, of Manutuke, Gisborne

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Public Works Department Camp, Mungaroa, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M. Pohatu (mother), Manutuke, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 21 Feb 1944-31 Mar 1944 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 814941 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Mooltan or Willem Ruys 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
  New Zealand Infantry AWMM
• WW2 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Listed on the Nominal Roll 13 and CWGC as Dan and as Raniera Dan Pohatu in Soutar (2008) AWMM

Matenga

15 Dec 1944 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Forli War Cemetery, Italy AWMM V, B, 18. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Pohatu. —In loving memory of my dear son, Pte. Dan Pohatu, who was killed in action at Faenza, December 15 1944.
Deep in’ my heart a memory is kept,
Of the one I love and shall never forget.
—Always remembered by his mother.
Pohatu, Pte. Dan. — In loving memory of Dan, killed in action at Faenza, December 15, 1944.
You’re not forgotten, dear Dan,
Nor will you ever be,
As long as life and memory last,
We will remember thee.
— Inserted by his brother and sister-in-law, Joss and Juliet Carroll.

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GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21897, 15 DECEMBER 1945, PAGE 1

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/2207225
  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.
• Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
  Different portrait published in Soutar (2008)
• 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. 13 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1944 to 31st March, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 13: WW2 100