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70 years ago this month

For most of June the Battalion are at Arce, north-west of Cassino. CO Lt-Col Young is keeping them occupied and out of mischief. The American’s have occupied Rome. Read the war diary for June 1944 here.

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Kāinga > Makiwi Merriman

Makiwi Merriman

WW1 Serial No: 
16/674
Surname: 
Merriman
Forename(s): 
Makiwi
WW1 Next of kin on enlistment: 
Tata Merriman (brother), Parawai, Thames, New Zealand
WW1 Address: 
Parawai, Thames, New Zealand
WW1 Embarkation body: 
2nd Maori Contingent
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I have a grudging admiration

Submitted by Kusabs on Sun, 28/05/2017 - 19:29

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I have a grudging admiration for my grand uncle Makiwi Meremana (16/674) the elder brother of Waimanuka Meremana/Merriman 16/672 (my grandfather).

Their father was a prominent chief of Ngati Maru, refer Thames & the Coromandel Peninsula 2000 years by Zelma & John Williams.
His whakapapa and position within the tribe probably contributed to his disrespect for military discipline as his war was one of hard labour, pay forfeiture, imprisonment and hospitalisation.
His first brush with the law was 10 May 1916 when he disobeyed orders from an NCO, it earned him 14 days Field Punishment No2. On 25 June 1916 he received 7 days FP # 1 for receiving a water bottle of beer while under arrest.
On 2 July 1916 he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for threatening violence to a superior officer. The order was signed of by Maj General Sir Andrew Russell GOC NZ Forces
12 April 1917 Absent from parade earned him 28 days FP#1
Never to be put down, 14 months later he was convicted of stealing fowls and was sentenced to 29 days hard labour in Her Majesty's Prison Shepton Mallett.
To add to all these other indignities he was admitted to an English hospital after hostilities ended suffering from VD.
What a character and what a pain to his superiors.
He passed away 3 August 1927 leaving no issue and is buried in our Meremana Urupa at Thames Racecourse
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