Frank Rodney Brooking

Forenames

Frank Rodney AWMM

Surname

Brooking AWMM

Service number

65272 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1913

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Place of birth

Te Araroa, East Coast, Gisborne

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Birth notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Oscar Brooking, of Te Araroa

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Waiomatatini, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs H. Brooking (wife), Ruatoria, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• 1941 Frank Rodney BROOKING married Hanna REEDY
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War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

65272 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

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

Capture details

WW2
13 Dec 1941 AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Frank Brooking was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Oscar Brooking, of Te Araroa, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

27 Mar 1943 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia AWMM X. F. 7. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Related objects

External links

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2182534
  Sources Used
• 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

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 4: WW2 42
• 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)
• 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.