Iharaira Puketapu

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Iharaira AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Puketapu AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Ihakaira AWMM

Nama Hōia

25992 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1909

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ihakaira-puketapu

Wāhi Whānau

Te Araroa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ihakaira-puketapu

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Puaha and Mere Puketapu, of Te Araroa

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Te Araroa, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Mere Puketapu (mother), Te Araroa, 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

25992 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 on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Name appears as Iharaira in Nominal Rolls, as Ihakaira in Commonwealth War Graves AWMM

Matenga

15 Dec 1941 AWMM
Age  32 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya AWMM 6. C. 17 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Advice has been received by their next of kin that Privates I. Puketapu, R. Ngatoro, C. Fo.x and G Hooper have been killed in action in the Libyan campaign. Privates Puketapu, Ngatoro, and Fox went away with the Maori Battalion and all escaped from Greece and Crete

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 August 2023 - TE ARAROA NEWS
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE 20655, 5 JANUARY 1942, PAGE 3

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/2382929
  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 388
• 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)