Renata Matengaro Wanoa

Title

Lance Corporal

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Forenames

Renata Matengaro AWMM

Surname

Wanoa AWMM

Also known as

• Matengaroa AWMM
• AKA Whaiora Wanoa and Rusty Wanoa
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Service number

39178 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1918

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Birth notes

Son of T. Wanoa and Rankura Wanoa, of Potaka

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Potaka, Hick's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mr Taha Wanoa (father), Hick's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

39178 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Truck Driver/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

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

Capture details

• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM
• WW2 POW - Germany AWMM
  Lazarett Lansdorf. AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 57, Gruppignano, Udine, Italy AWMM
• Lance Renata Matengaro Wanoa died April 23, 1944 in a POW camp Stalag VIII B 344 - near Lamsdorf (Ła
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Medical notes

23 Apr 1944 AWMM Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Tuberculosis meningitis. Lazarett Lansdorf. AWMM

Last rank

Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Death

23 Apr 1944 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery, Poland AWMM 1A. B. 12. AWMM

Obituary

Lance Renata Matengaro Wanoa died April 23, 1944 in a POW camp Stalag VIII B 344 - near Lamsdorf (Łambinowice) in Silesia. Krakow cemetery lies with the British Commonwealth, he was only 26 years old.

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Memorial name

Hinerupe Marae War Memorial, Te Araroa
Hinepare Marae War Memorial, Rangitukia
Gisborne's War Memori

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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
• 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
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2193920
  Sources Used
• 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
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. Zenodo Record.
  https://zenodo.org/records/4560909
  Further Reference

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. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 194
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Germany and German occupied territories : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer.
• Deaths While Prisoner of War - Navy, Army, Air Force and Civilians [WW2 NZ POW Deaths], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152).
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Prisoners of War Enquiry Office. (1941–1944). The New Zealand prisoner of war pamphlet: Official pamphlet of the Prisoners of War Enquiry Office of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Wellington, New Zealand.
  No. 9, March 1943, pp.11-12