Pangorangi Karauria

Forenames

Pangorangi AWMM

Surname

Karauria AWMM

Also known as

Pango, Nigger AWMM

Service number

39141 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

15th November 1910

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Birth notes

Son of Ruatara KARAURIA & Kerenapu Thompson,

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Miss Lena Karauria (sister), Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
• 1948 Pangorangi KARAURIA married Heni Rongokino Chambers
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War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

39141 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  26 Aug 1942 AWMM
• WW2
  26 Aug 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag XVIII-A, Wolfsberg, Austria AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 73, Carpi, Italy AWMM

Name recorded as Pango, Nigger in Soutar (2008) AWMM

Death

13 Mar 1976 Public Source

Date of death

13 March 1976

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 31 August 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Age at death

65 yrs

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 31 August 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Place of death

Gisborne, NZ

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 31 August 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Death notes

2nd NZEF, 39141 Pte P R KARAURIA, Maori Battn, died 13 March 1976 aged 65 years.

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 31 August 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records

Cemetery name

Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne

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Grave reference

Block RSA; Plot: 750; Warrant # 14265

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Related objects

External links

• 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
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/4560909
  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

References

• 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. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 100
• 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)
• 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.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.