Eruera Armentieres Tuhoro

Forenames

Eruera Armentieres AWMM

Surname

Tuhoro AWMM

Also known as

Eru AWMM

Service number

WWII 802247 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Birth

1916 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs R. Tuhoro (wife), Tikitiki, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Married AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 802247 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Private AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 9th Reinforcements AWMM

Capture details

• WW2
  7 Dec 1943 AWMM
• WW2
  7 Dec 1943 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Parents, Raniera and Heni had two sons die in the First World War: Eruera Kawhia (16/95) and Potene Tuhoro (16/769). They went on to have two more sons and they named them in memory of the older boys. The namesakes are: Eruera Armentieres Tuhoro (802247) and Potene Brockenhurst Tuhoro.

Eruera came back from the War. AWMM

Death

1994 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  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

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 11 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1943 to 30th June, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 11: WW2 130
• 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.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.