Arnold Kenneth Beale Williams
I whānau mai i te 4 Nov 1913 - I mate atu i te 13 Jan 1945
- Nama Hōia
- 16452 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Trooper AWMM Divisional Cavalry AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Arnold Kenneth Beale AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Williams AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- 16452 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 4 Nov 1913 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
- Te Puia Springs, NZPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 January 2016 - Research
- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
- Son of Arnold Beetham Williams and Ema Reremoana WilliamsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 January 2016 - http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/arnold-kenneth-beale-williams
- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Unknown AWMM Te Puia Springs, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Mr A.B. Williams (father), Te Puia Springs, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 01 Apr 1941-30 Jun 1941 AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- 16452 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW2 Shepherd/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW2 Trooper AWMM 2nd Divisional Cavalry Regiment AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Trooper AWMM
Divisional Cavalry AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of Arnold Beetham Williams and Ema Reremoana Williams, of Te Puia Springs. AWMM
- During this period Div Cav was suddenly the poorer for a much loved, strong, & very picturesque character. On 13 January Trooper Williams was killed. He was arriving back at his troop casa after returning the ration containers—rations were always ‘cunning munga’ in his parlance—when a mortar bomb landed nearby. His companion was wounded, but Arnold took the last 2 or 3 paces inside & fell down dead, with shrapnel through his head. He was a particularly kind & gentle man inside, and outside, rough and rugged. One of a large and closely-knit family, he & his Air Force brother, who had died in a German hospital in Yugoslavia some 4 months earlier, had often proved capable of overcoming not only time but also great distance to see each other. Arnold was irregular in dress &, despite all contrary orders over head-dress, retained for use, whenever possible, his old felt hat, which he wore caved in, & with a leather strap woven through some knife-cuts in place of a puggaree. In Italy it was typical of him that he was never satisfied to sleep where others did & was particularly fond of making his bed in the big bread ovens in the walls of the houses. Stories of him—‘Arnold stories’ to Div Cav—went the rounds of the Division. He once, when banking on having no squadron inspection and realising he was caught, took a smart pace back from the rear rank, extracted the pull- through from his rifle-butt, cleaned the bore, & stepped back into line with nobody in authority any the wiser. On another occasion the inspecting officer, Lt-Col Carruth, noticing the bagginess of his pants, stopped & said: ‘No braces, Trooper?’, to be floored by the quasi-friendly reply, ‘No buttons at the back, eh!’ In Tunisia he drove the carrier for the ‘I’ Corporal, ‘Banjo’ Pattison. He got steadily more & more annoyed at a stiff steering wheel & wrenched it harder & harder at each bend, until it finally came off in his hands. Whereupon he solemnly handed it up to the crew commander with the remark: ‘Here y'are, Banjo. Drive the bast..d yourself!’ But his most famous exploit of all was whilst on a train-guard in the Nile Delta when everybody was at loss for hot water for a brew of tea. Down the main line came roaring the Cairo-Alexandria express, which was met by A.K.B. standing between the rails, his arm held up imperiously. When it screeched to a panting halt he walked round to the driver, handed up one issue cigarette in exchange for a jet of steam from the boiler-pump exhaust into his billy, stood back & waved the train on its way.
Arnold passes out of this story mourned by all of Div Cav, buried in the Romagna in a grave dug under the snow. Even the sky wept that day.Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 4 January 2016 - nzetc.victoria.ac.nz
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 13 Jan 1945 AWMM
Age 32 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Faenza War Cemetery, Italy AWMM I.A.10. AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- 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
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2238002
Sources Used - Ngā tuhinga
- Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
p. 391. - Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
p.378 - Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
- Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
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