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Paa Ngerengere

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Paa AWMM
  • Surname
    Ngerengere AWMM
  • Ingoa
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  • Service number
    817634 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
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  • Birth
    13 December 1921 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    13/12/1921 Public - Corren Ebbalena Taasha - Direct descendant - 21 October 2018 - My Grandads headstone - Whararangi Cemetary, Taradale Hawkes Bay
  • Place of birth
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    Unknown AWMM Tikitikti, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs R. Ngerengere (wife), Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
    • Married - Mavis Ngerengere Public - Corren Ebbalena Taasha - Direct descendant - 21 October 2018 - Oral - My Nana and Granddad

Service

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
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    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    817634 AWMM
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Training and Enlistment

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    WW2 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
    Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM
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  • Private N. P. Ngerengere, Tikitiki, also wounded, has been abroad only a few months, having left with the latest reinforcement for the Maori Battalion. He is a married man, without children
    REF: GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21547, 28 OCTOBER 1944, PAGE 6

    N.Z.E.F. TROOPS BIG DISTRICT DRAFT MIDDLE EAST SERVICE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 21. The following Second N.Z.E.F. personnel have returned to New Zealand from the Mediterranean theatre of war
    included in this list is:
    Ngerengere. Pte. P. of Tikitiki.
    REF: GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21694, 21 APRIL 1945, PAGE 6
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 7 August 2023
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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 72 AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM

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07 August 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
21 October 2018Corren Ebbalena TaashaWaikato, New ZealandDirect descendant

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