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Wi Kerei

  • Service number
    802017 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Wi Apanui KEREI Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - Nga Tama Toa by Monty Soutar page 389
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Wi AWMM
  • Surname
    Kerei AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Wi Apanui KEREI Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - Nga Tama Toa by Monty Soutar page 389
  • Service number
    802017 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    • b. 1924 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - https://www.myheritage.com/names/wi_kerei
    • 25 March 1924 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - NZ BDM Records
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
    son of Rawiri and Pohatu Merekaraka KEREI (nee' Waaka). Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023 - https://www.myheritage.com/names/wi_kerei
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Te Kaha, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs P. Kerei (mother), Te Kaha, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 21 July 1943 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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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Death

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  • Death
  • 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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  • Wi Apanui KEREI died in 1999 aged 74yrs
    REF: NZ BDM Death Records & https://www.myheritage.com/names/wi_kerei
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2023
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman. AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 105 AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman. AWMM
      Portrait published in Soutar (2008) AWMM
    • Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Ko te Reo Huringa Tau o te Ope Maori Tuarua, i noho ki Remuera, Ohaeawai, 1942-43: The Anniversary Magazine of the Second Maori Battalion, Remuera, Ohaeawai 1942-1943. Patrick Smyth Papers, MS-2002-147, Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
    • Nominal Roll of Members of the 2nd Maori Battalion, 26th January 1943. Part of the 2nd Maori Battalion Anniversary Magazine. (MS-2002-147). Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM

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05 August 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher

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