Ben Hake

Forenames

Ben AWMM

Surname

Hake AWMM

Also known as

Pene Whenuariri HAKE

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Service number

WWII 68095 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Tairawhiti, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

16 August 1909

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Place of birth

NZ

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Address before enlistment

WW2 Care of Black Brothers, Otara Road, Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mrs M.K. Hake (wife), Care of Nehe Tu R.D., Te Karaka, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 21 Jul 1943 AWMM Married AWMM
• 1943 Ben HAKE married Mary Kathleen TU
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - NZ BDM marriage REcords

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 68095 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Vessel was Nieuw Amsterdam AWMM Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 10th Reinforcements AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  8 Feb 1944 AWMM
• WW2
  18 Feb 1944 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany AWMM

• Identified as B and C Company (Soutar, 2008) AWMM
• Safe in-England. Advice has been received in Opotiki that Pte. Ben Hake (Ben Hur) who was taken prisoner by the Germans in December, 1943, is now in England
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 August 2023 - OPOTIKI NEWS, VOLUME VIII, ISSUE 831, 5 JUNE 1945, PAGE 2

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
• 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

• Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 12: WW2 78
• 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.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.