Nepia Mahuika
Born B. 1913
Public - Halim Paikea - Direct descendant - 17 March 2025 - Family papers
- Died 4 Feb 2001 - Service number
- 65296 AWMM
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- Captain/Military AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM
- War
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
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- B. 1913Public - Halim Paikea - Direct descendant - 17 March 2025 - Family papers
- b. 1917Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- B. 1913
- Place of birth
- Tikitiki, East CoastPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Birth notes
- Son of Hamana Mahuika and Hemoata Mahuika, of TikitikiPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM
- KaitahaPublic - Halim Paikea - Direct descendant - 17 March 2025 - Family papers
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- Next of kin
- Mrs H. Mahuika (mother), Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 21 Jul 1943 AWMM Single AWMM
- 1948 Nepia MAHUIKA married Mana Wanui Temateroa ORMSBYPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2023 - NZ BDM Marriage Records
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- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
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- Army AWMM
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- 65296 AWMM
- Military service
- 2nd Maori Battalion AWMM
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- WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
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Embarkations
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- WW2 Vessel was Nieuw Amsterdam AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
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- Captain/Military AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- This article appeared in the 29 March - 2 April 2002 NZ 28 Maori Battalion Reunion booklet.
Obituary - 65296 Nepia Mahuika
Nepia Mahuika died in Ngaruwahia, aged 87, on 4 February last year. Born at Whakawititira, near Tikitiki he was the eldest son of Hamana and Tangipo Hemoata Mahuika. After war broke out he trained as an officer and eventually got away with the 10th Reinforcements, his two younger brothers having gone ahead in the 5th and 6th.
As a leader of men he was much respected. In Italy he was a platoon commander in charge of 15 platoon. Tini Glover, remembers him as a gentle, dignified man who treated his men decently. "If we did something wrong, he would tell us softly, and not bully us. You have more respect for a man that speaks to you that way." Nepia took command of C Company on the outskirts of Faenza when Harry Mackey was wounded - hit by shrapnel from a shell as he was carrying a man whose leg had been blown off.
After the war Nepia married and began farming in the Tapuaeroa Valley, near Ruatoria. He also ran a taxi, a couple of trucks and occasionally drove the local road services bus. Later he and his family moved to Wainuiomata where he worked at the Gear Meat Works at Petone until it closed in 1972, followed by a stint at the wharves and eventually the Correspondence School in Wellington, teaching Maori.
Nepia's tangi was held at Tuhikaramea marae, at Templeview, and he lies in the RSA cemetery at Ngaruwahia. He is survived by his wife Manawanui nee Ormsby and their ten children.Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 August 2015 - http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/soldier/nepia-mahuika
About death
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- 4 Feb 2001 AWMM
Age 87 AWMM - Date of death
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- Ngaruawahia Cemetery, Ngaruawahia, Waikato District, New Zealand AWMM RSA Section AWMM
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- External links
- 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
Sources Used - Obituary:
http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/soldier/nepia-mahuika
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 - Paterson, Lachy. (24 October 2020). The forgotten Maori Battalion. maorihomefront.nz
https://www.maorihomefront.nz/en/whanau-stories/the-forgotten-maori-battalion/
Further Reference
- 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
- References
- Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
- 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 128 - Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
- 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
- Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- 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.
- 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.
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