John David Sanson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

John David AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Sanson AWMM

Nama Hōia

458311 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

December 9 1921

Public - Alexia - Other relative - 19 April 2023 - Family papers

Wāhi Whānau

Te Aroha, Waikato

Public - Alexia - Other relative - 19 April 2023 - Family papers

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Parkhurst, Helensville, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Parkhurst, Helensville, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• Mrs Rita Sanson (mother), South Head, Helensville, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Wooe Sanson (wife), Rai Valley, Marlborough, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

458311 AWMM

Te urunga

• WW2 Farm hand/Civilian AWMM
• WW2 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW2 Temporary Corporal AWMM New Zealand Infantry Brigade AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Corporal/Military AWMM Infantry Reinforcements AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Corporal/Military AWMM
27 (Machine Gun) Battalion AWMM

Son of William Angus and Rita Sanson of South Head, Helensville; husband of Wooe Sanson, of Rai Valley, Marlborough AWMM

Matenga

16 Apr 1945 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Faenza War Cemetery, Italy AWMM IV. G. 19 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Kaipara Memorial RSA, 49 Commercial Road, Helensville, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2237806
Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• The Weekly News
  1945
• Kay, R. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Kay, R. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  WW2 11: WW2 114
• Kay, R. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  WW2 15: WW2 126
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 11 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1943 to 30th June, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.114
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 15 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1945 to 31st December, 1945). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.126