Horomona Tipene
I mate atu i te 7 Apr 1979
- Nama Hōia
- WWII 39487 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Solomon AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Horomona AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Tipene AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Solomon AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWII 39487 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
- Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
- Ngāti Hine, Māori AWMM
- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- WW2 Unknown AWMM Motatau, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
- Farmer/Civilian AWMM
- Uri kiritahi
- WW2 Mrs M. Tipene (wife), Motatau, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- Greece AWMM
- 1941 AWMM Crete AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWII 39487 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- New Zealand AWMM
- Aldershot AWMM
- 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 Unknown AWMM
Age 27 AWMM
Carpenter/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 Vessel was Aquitania AWMM Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
- WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
02 Jun 1941-29 Apr 1945 AWMM
Participating in Battle for Crete AWMM - WW2 POW - Crete AWMM
- WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
- WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
- 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
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Pita Tipene, 2006 Reunion Secretary, described how Horomona (Solomon) Tipene was born and raised into a family of 21 in Motatau. He went to World War II with his brother Titiro (Ruki) Tipene. Sir James Henare was their cousin as their mother Mereana was a sister of Tau Henare, MP.
He trained in New Zealand and then Aldershot in England, before being transported from Liverpool via Seirra Leone to Tufic at the entrance to the Suez Canal. From there he went to military camp in Alexandria, and Cairo. Shortly after he went to Greece and it was there that he first engaged with the enemy and fought in the front line at Mt Olympus. He was part of the evacuation from Greece to Crete. He was capture by the Germans on Crete and transported as a POW by rail to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslavakia.
He spent the remainder of the war in captivity working in a sugar beet factory, a gas works and benzene factory.
He was one of those prisoners who took part in the three month Long March across Germany from Poland, at times through thick snow. This was a difficult treck for the soldiers and he often carried one of his friends on piggyback to help them along.
He was flown by American troop carrier from Munich to France. From there by Lancaster bomber to Margate in the United Kingdom and hospitalized. He finally returned to New Zealand via Liverpool arriving at Wellington on 20 July 1946. They travelled via Panama.
He was met by his mother and taken home for a party at the family papakainga, Te Hurihanga.
He didn't talk much about his war experiences but he did mention that the skies of Crete were black with parachutists. He often used German words in his conversation and it was not uncommon to hear words like 'achtung'.
He donated generously to organisation such as the Red Cross as he said the parcels sent to the POWs by the Red Cross during the war were everything to the men.
He is buried beside many other Maori Battalion and other servicemen, including his brother Ruki and his cousin Sir James Henare.
Pita Tipene, 2006 Reunion Secretary. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 7 Apr 1979 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
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- urupa, Takapuna urupa, Motatau, Bay of Islands, New Zealand 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
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
Further Reference - Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
https://zenodo.org/records/3955186
Further Reference - 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
- 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
- Ngā tuhinga
- Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
WW2 2: WW2 186 - List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
- Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
- Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Information kindly provided by family
- Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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