Te Whareriri Rogers

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Te Whareriri AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Rogers AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Te Wharekiri AWMM

Nama Hōia

67548 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Arawa, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

24 Jun 1914 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hargreave Rogers, of Rotorua

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-wharekiri-rogers

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Tikitere, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs T.K. Rogers (wife), Tikitere, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 21 Jul 1943 AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband Teaho-ote-Rangi, Kathleen Rogers, of Rotorua
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/te-wharekiri-rogers

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Italy AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

67548 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

2nd Maori Battalion AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Manager/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Vessel was Nieuw Amsterdam AWMM Sergeant AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
  Wounded 8 December 1943, 8 June 1944 AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Second Lieutenant Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!
28 (Maori) Battalion, B Company Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e!

Te Wharekiri Rogers was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hargreave Rogers, of Rotorua; husband of Teaho-ote-Rangi, Kathleen Rogers, of Rotorua.

Listed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission with name Te Wharekiri Rogers. Described in the Official war History,Cody (1956), as Lieutenant and in CWGC as 2nd Lieutenant AWMM

Matenga

8 Jun 1944 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Cassino War Cemetery, Italy AWMM X. C. 20. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

DIED OF WOUNDS - MAORI BATTALION OFFICER (0.C.) ROTORUA. Sunday
Reported to have died of wounds, Second-Lieutenant Te Wharekiri Glenville Rogers was 29 years of age. He was born in Rotorua and received his secondary education at the Dannevirke High School, where he was outstanding at sports, He later played Rugby football for Hawke's Bay colts. Before he joined the Army he was for some time joint manager with his wife, of the Tikitere Thermal Region. He relinquished a commission in the territorials ' to go overseas. He was first wounded last December and, on rejoining the | Maori Battalion, was commissioned in the field. He is survived by his wife and two children. One of his brothers was killed in action in North Africa and the other is serving in Italy

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME 81, ISSUE 24929, 26 JUNE 1944, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Rotorua Citizens War Memorial (World War 2) AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• 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
  Sources Used
• 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/2612638
  Sources Used
• Paterson, Lachy. (24 October 2020). The forgotten Maori Battalion. maorihomefront.nz
  https://www.maorihomefront.nz/en/whanau-stories/the-forgotten-maori-battalion/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books.
• 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 167
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Ko te Reo Huringa Tau o te Ope Maori Tuarua, i noho ki Remuera, Ohaeawai, 1942-43: The Anniversary Magazine of the Second Maori Battalion, Remuera, Ohaeawai 1942-1943. Patrick Smyth Papers, MS-2002-147, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
• Nominal Roll of Members of the 2nd Maori Battalion, 26th January 1943. Part of the 2nd Maori Battalion Anniversary Magazine. (MS-2002-147). Auckland War Memorial Museum.