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Wikitoria Katene

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  • Service number
    72092 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Wikitoria Te Huruhururu Whatu AWMM
    • Wikitoria Whatu AWMM
    • Wild Whatu AWMM
    • Stene AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Mrs Wikitoria Te Huruhuru Whatu (Nee Katene)

Wiki Whatu

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Wikitoria AWMM
  • Surname
    Katene AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Wikitoria Te Huruhururu Whatu AWMM
    • Wikitoria Whatu AWMM
    • Wild Whatu AWMM
    • Stene AWMM
  • Service number
    72092 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi
    Iwi Māori AWMM
  • Hapū
    Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga AWMM
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    3 February 1912 WWII WAAC Roll
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs T. Katene (mother), Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM Tailoress/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Sister of George Katene (6125) 28 Maori Battalion killed in Italy

    NZ general Hospital Cairo, Italy, Egypt

    Photographs in Ordinary people kit AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    20 August 2006 WWII WAAC Roll
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Roll of Honour

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  • Wikitoria lived as a reveared member of our family in Porirua following her service in the war. In her later years she loved to care for her gardens and loved being around children like me whom she helped bring up She was later awareded a QSM, along with her brother for services to the community. She died, in Porirua in 2004 and is buried with her family at the urupa in Takapuawahia, Mataiwhetu Street.
    Public - wiremu - Direct descendant - 27 May 2016
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Ordinary people kit : New Zealanders remember the Second World War. [resource kit]. (1995). Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs. AWMM
    • Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.20 AWMM
    • Iwi, Hapū, Rohe and additional whakapapa information kindly provided from “Ngāti Raukawa and 20th century wars. Ngā Pakanga o Te Ao. Participation, Price, and Post-War Experience.” Research conducted by Te Kenehi Teira and Heeni Collins (2022). Report commissioned by Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington (Wai 2200 Porirua ki Manawatu Inquiry). AWMM
    • Ngāti Raukawa in World War 2 - 1939-1945 & further (credit to Reuben Waaka, Diane Taylor, Te Kenehi Teira). Part of “Ngāti Raukawa and 20th century wars. Ngā Pakanga o Te Ao. Participation, Price, and Post-War Experience.” Research conducted by Te Kenehi Teira and Heeni Collins (2022). Report commissioned by Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington (Wai 2200 Porirua ki Manawatu Inquiry). AWMM
    • WAAC [Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] - Lists - Overseas Information [including Strength Returns and Embarkation Rolls] (1943 - 1945) - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, (R22502074) AWMM

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08 May 2019WiremuPoriruaDirect descendant

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