Story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes

Soldiers of the Māori Battalion

The tribes of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa provided men for the 28th New Zealand Battalion (better known as the Māori Battalion) during the Second World War. Men of the battalion are pictured here at a transit camp in Egypt in 1941.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection (PAColl-4161)

Reference: DA-06839

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Nick Tūpara, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes – Reconstruction and development, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4215/soldiers-of-the-maori-battalion (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nick Tūpara, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.

Comments

kieran
31 March 2014

http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/ this website has a search register

julia lemon
26 February 2013

I would like to get information on 2 (two) members of my whanau who are; 1/Saul Jack or John Thompson, from Whangaruru. 2/Henry Hirini Tamihana or Thompson from Waiomio or B.O.I I am a daughter of Henry Tamihana who is a 1st cousin to Saul Thompson. I would appreciate any pictures that may be available.....