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Kōrero: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars

Te rōpū hōia Māori ki Korea, 1953

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Māori gun crew in Korea, 1953

I te tau 1953 ka whakatūria te rōpū mau pū Māori mai i te Petere 162 o te Matua Whīra 16 o te Taua Pupuhi Pū Roera o Aotearoa ki Koria. Atu i te mauī ko Pupuhi Pū P. Te Kani (Tauranga rātou ko W. Martin (Whakatāne), ko J. J. Hudson (Whakatāne), ko B. Manga (Tūranga), ko Raihana Pomatia J. T. Popata (Kaitāia). I tū te pakanga o Koria i waenga i ngā tau o 1951 me 1953.  Kāore he wāhanga Māori tūturu o Kayforce, te ope o Aotearoa ki Korea. Ahakoa tērā, i tahuri a ngāi Māori ki te whakapipiri hei kapa pupuhi pū, i ētahi atu kapa iti pērā rānei. I te tuatahi he Māori tētahi 7.5% o Kayforce, heoi anō, kotahi i roto i te tokowhā o ngā taituarā o muri mai, he Māori. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection (DA-01514)

Reference: K-2007-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Monty Soutar, Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars – Overseas service after 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36700/te-ropu-hoia-maori-ki-korea-1953 (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Monty Soutar, i tāngia i te 5 June 2012, updated 1 May 2016.