Tamarangi AWMM

Taihuka AWMM

26038 AWMM

Male AWMM

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

b. 1918 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tamarangi-taihuka

Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tamarangi-taihuka

Son of Kitini and Ani Taihuka, of Gisborne. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 August 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tamarangi-taihuka

Unknown AWMM Waihirere, New Zealand AWMM

Mr K. Taihuka (father), Waihirere, New Zealand AWMM

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Army AWMM

26038 AWMM

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

WW2 Unknown AWMM Shepherd/Civilian AWMM
Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

17 November 1942 AWMM
Age 24 AWMM
AWMM

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM 3. 13. WW 2 Soldiers' Area. AWMM

"The death occurred at the Cook Hospital today of Mr. Tamarangi Taihuka, aged 24, a returned soldier who was the first member of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force to die in Gisborne. Mr. Taihuka was born at Waihirere and educated at the Wae-renga-a-hika School and latterly at Ihe Waerenga-a-hika Native Boys’ High School. On leaving school he took up farming on his own account and followed that occupation until he volunteered and was accepted for the Second Echelon going overseas. He was in Greece and Crete and was evacuated from Crete just prior to the conflict owing to illness. On his return to New Zealand he had to enter the Wellington Hospital and later the Cook Hospital, Gisborne. Much sympathy will be extended to his sisters, Mrs. Terekia and Miss Kate Taihuka. A service will be held at Waihirere at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow, after which the funeral will leave at 2,15 p.m., arriving at the soldiers’ plot at the Taruheru cemetery at 2.45 p.m. The Gisborne R.S.A. is arranging a conveyance to leave the 11.5. A. rooms at 2.15 p.m. and is inviting all members of the Second N.Z.E.F. who are available to attend. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 August 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE 20943, 17 NOVEMBER 1942, PAGE 6

Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.htm
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2920020
  Sources Used

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  WW2 3: WW2 463 AWMM
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM