Walker Culling Brunton

Forenames

Walker Culling AWMM

Surname

Brunton AWMM

Also known as

Walter AWMM

Service number

WWII 26654 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Birth

27 Mar 1906 Public Source

Date of birth

• Register of Birth 1906/10059
  Public - Dulcie - Other Relative - 23 April 2015 - Register of Birth 1906/10059
• March 27, 1906
  Public - Dulcie - Other Relative - 23 April 2015 - New Zealand Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Kaukapakapa, Rodney, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs S. Brunton (mother), Kaukapakapa, Rodney, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 26654 AWMM

Military service

• 29th (Mixed) Battalion AWMM
• B Force, 8th Brigade, New Zealand 3rd Division AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Driver/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Private AWMM 29 Infantry Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM

Son of Herbert William and Sarah Ann Brunton, of Hatuma, Hawke's Bay

Listed as Walker Culling Brunton by CWGC and also the Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Listed as Walter on Nominal Roll 3. Next of kin listed in the Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945 as Mrs S. Brunton and by CWGC as son of Herbert William and Sarah Ann Brunton, of Hatuma, Hawke's Bay AWMM

Death

27 Oct 1942 AWMM
Age  36 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Cemetery

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM Zealand V. G. 6. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Silverdale RSA, 43A Vipond Road, Stanmore Bay, Silverdale 0932 AWMM
• Silverdale RSA, 43A Vipond Road, Stanmore Bay, Silverdale 0932 AWMM
• Eketahuna District High School Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
  Public - Elli - Researcher - 8 June 2020 - Eketahuna Primary School Centennial and D.H.S. Re-Union, published 1979

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• 28 (Maori) Battalion Roll of Honour originally published in Cody (1956). Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor-_N100649.html
  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
  Sources Used
• 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/2092597
  Sources Used

References

• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 61
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Nominal rolls - Embarkation rolls B-force 8th infantry brigade group [New Zealand Military Forces - "B" Force - Embarkation Roll]. Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1421 (R22440171)
• Gillespie, O. (1952). The Pacific. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.