Ngaro Komene

Forenames

Ngaro AWMM

Surname

Komene AWMM

Also known as

Ngaro Komene AWMM

Service number

• Jayforce 25911 AWMM
• Korea 204475 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Birth

8 Jan 1916 Public source

Address before enlistment

• Jayforce Unknown AWMM Maungatapere, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Jayforce Unknown AWMM Maungatapere, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Korea Box 11 Hikurangi AWMM
• Korea Box 18, Hikurangi AWMM

Next of kin

• Jayforce Mr R. Komene (father), Kaikohe, New Zealand AWMM
• Jayforce Mr P. Renata (brother), Hikurangi, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Unknown AWMM Single/Jayforce AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

• Jayforce, 1945-1948 AWMM
• Jayforce, 1945-1948 AWMM
• Korean War, 1950-1953 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• Jayforce 25911 AWMM
• Korea 204475 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Korea Medal (EIIR) AWMM
• United Nations Medal for Korea AWMM
• New Zealand Operational Service Medal AWMM

Enlistment

• Jayforce 1940-1941 Nom Roll 1 Labourer/Civilian Nom Roll 1
• Jayforce 1946-1948 Nom Roll 16 Labourer/Civilian Nom Roll 16

Embarkation details

• Jayforce Private Nom Roll 1 28 (Maori) Battalion Nom Roll 1 British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Japan AWMM
• Korea Gunner/Military K-Force R22440250
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Capture details

• WW2 POW - Stalag XVIII-A, Wolfsberg, Austria AWMM
  4 Sept 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Greece AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag XVIII-A, Wolfsberg, Austria AWMM

Father of Lawrence April Komene. Former husband of Frances (Fran) Sasien. Service number is for both the Second World War and Jayforce.

POW Number: 4614 AWMM

Death

13 Dec 1979 Public source

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery AWMM Soldier's Burial: M Row 18, Plot 108 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• 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
• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  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
• J Force Wikipedia Page
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Force
  Further Reference
• Romano, G. (2021, March 4). Jayforce: 75 years on. Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/jayforce
  Further Reference

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.260
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.72
• 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
• Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press.
• Nominal rolls - Nominal rolls embarkation K-force [Korea Nominal Roll], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1433 (R22440250)
• Chamberlain, H. (2013). The New Zealand Korea Roll : honouring those who served in the New Zealand Armed Forces in Korea, 1950-1957. Wellington, N.Z.: Author.
• Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• McGibbon, I.C. (1992-1996). New Zealand and the Korean War (Vols. 1-2). Auckland, N.Z.; Wellington, N.Z.: Oxford University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
• Parr, A. (2012). The occupiers : New Zealand veterans remember post-war Japan. Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin.