Edward Berryman
Private 60137 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · Wounded and invalided home
Early life
Edward Rewi Berryman, also recorded as Edward Mohi Berryman, was born in Auckland on 2 August 1914, the son of Stanley Vivian Mohi Berryman and Te Oke Tarawhiti. He grew up at Huntly West, in the Waikato, and worked as a coal miner and cook.
War
Edward sailed with D Company in 1940–41 and is at the far right of the back row in the 1940 photograph of D Company at Papakura. He was wounded, and by mid-1943 he had been sent home medically unfit.
After the war
Edward married Eliza Te Riwhi Takarei at Huntly in 1946, and they had three sons. He died on 15 August 1979, aged 65, and is buried at Huntly.
Sources
Online Cenotaph C116585; 28th Māori Battalion website, D Company at Papakura, 1940 (Palmer family collection); Ngata’s 1943 nominal roll (Mataia, ‘Odd men from the Pacific’, 2007); FamilySearch.
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