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Tapui Retimana Potaka

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Tapui Retimana AWMM
  • Surname
    Potaka AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Taps AWMM
  • Service number
    13656 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
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

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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  • Husband of Rakapa

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    10 January 2012 AWMM
    Age 78 AWMM
    Hamilton, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Te Awamutu Cemetery, Te Awamutu, New Zealand AWMM RSA Section AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 12 January 2012 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • E te Papa,kei te tangi tonu te whatumanawa. He aroha mutunga kore.
    Public - Elayne Kahurangi - Other Relative - 11 March 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    New Zealand History online NZ and the Malayan Emergency
    http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-malayan-emergency
    Further Reference
  • References
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 12 January 2012 AWMM

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11 March 2015Elayne KahurangiWhanganui NZOther Relative

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