Private 801873 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · Died on active service, Italy, 20 July 1945 Early life Waru Adamson came from Karioi, near Ohakune, where his parents, Te Rohana and Kuini Te Whetu, lived. Before he enlisted he was working for the Public Works Department in Nelson, and he gave his aunt, Mrs…
Corporal 39546 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · Main Body, 1940 Early life Jack Albert, known in Māori as Tuhuna Erueti, was born in Wanganui on 21 March 1912, one of the youngest of four children of Erueti Te Rangirunga and Ngapera Matene. He was raised by Hakaraia Te Tiwha and grew up at…
Sergeant 67509 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · 7th Reinforcements, 1941 Arthur Tukiri is a different man from Corporal Arthur Anderson (8830) of Te Kūiti, who also served in D Company. Early life Arthur Tukiri Anderson grew up at Tawata, on the Whanganui River near Taumarunui, where his father, Mr A. Anderson, lived. He…
Private 39538 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · Killed in action, Crete, 23 May 1941 Early life Matiu Patapu Bailey, known as Mat, was from Pūtiki, Whanganui, the son of Ihaka Bailey and Moari Maraea Bailey (née Graham). He was single and working as a labourer, with his mother as his next of kin….