Pouramua Nihoniho

Forenames

Pouramua AWMM

Surname

Nihoniho AWMM

Also known as

• Robert Tuhura AWMM
• Pourainua AWMM

Service number

39785 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1919

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Place of birth

Ruatoria

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Birth notes

Son of Pakanui Nihoniho and of Heni Nohoaka Nihoniho (nee Hongara), of Hiruharama, East Coast

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Address before enlistment

Waitakaro, Ruatoria, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mr Pakanui Nihoniho (father), Waitakaro, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

39785 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

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

Capture details

• WW2
  4 Sept 1942 AWMM
• WW2 POW - Salonike, Greece - VIII-B (later Stalag-344) Lamsdorf, Germany AWMM
• WW2 POW - P.G. 85, Tuturano, Italy AWMM
• WW2 POW - Stalag VIII-B (later 344), Lamsdorf, Poland AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died while Prisoner of War AWMM
• 15 Apr 1945 AWMM Other, WWII AWMM
  Shot and killed in train en route from Zhitomir to Odessa. AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Pouramua Nihoniho was the son of Pakanui Nihoniho and of Heni Nohoaka Nihoniho (nee Hongara), of Hiruharama, Auckland, New Zealand.

Name appears as Pourainua in Nominal Rolls, as Pouramua in Commonwealth War Graves. AWMM

Death

15 Apr 1945 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Obituary

Died on Active Service While a Prisoner of War—Previously a Prisoner of War Nihoniho, Pte. Pouramua, Ruatoria

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 July 2023 - ROLL OF HONOUR
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21702, 2 MAY 1945, PAGE 6

Memorial name

• Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM
• 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/2184886
  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
• 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.
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• 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 139
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.