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Their Stories

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  • Official and unofficial correspondence relating to the 28th Māori Battalion.

    Greece and Crete

    • 26 June 1941 - Fred Baker reflects on Battle of Crete 
    • 24 June 1941 - Fred Baker reflects on the bayonet charge at 42nd Street, Crete
    • 12 August 1941 - Ngata writes to Dittmer concerning the good response at home to the actions of the Battalion
    • 14 April 1953 - Wiremu Herewini on what happened to Reinforcements Company in Crete
    • 29 August 1953 - Major Humphrey Dyer gives his account of the bayonet charge on 42nd  Street, Crete
    • no date - Paratene Kohere describes the counter-attack in Crete (Pt I)
    • no date - Paratene Kohere describes the counter-attack in Crete (Pt II)

     

    North Africa

    • November 1941 - Rangi Royal updates Ngata on the events of November 1941
    • 9 November 1941 - Padre Harawira writes to Ngata with a personal update on the Battalion
    • 25 November 1942 - Wharetini Rangi writes to Ngata during the battle of El Alamein
    • 14 May 1943 - Ngata writes to Wharetini Rangi

    Italian campaign

    • 1944 - Padre Huata writes to the Bishop of Aotearoa

    Life in the Battalion

    • 11 December 1940 - Henare Ngata writes to Maraea Te Kawa
    • 20 July 1941 - Dittmer writes to Sir Apirana Ngata
    • 22 May 1942 - Panapa updates Ngata on training at Taiamai (Ohaeawai)
    • 30 May 1942 - Ben Rata writes home to his mother from Syria
    • 2 June 1942 - Tuakana Ngata updates his father Apirana about training at Ohaeawai
    • 8 June 1942 - Ace Wood writes to Dyer with an update on the Battalion
    • 5 August 1942 - Wharetini Rangi writes home to his wife
    • 2 February 1943 - Wharetini Rangi writes to Ngata from Tripoli with an update on the Battalion
    • 16 February 1943 - C Company officers write to Ngata about their concerns
    • 30 March 1943 - Ngata writes to the Prime Minister concerned about high Battalion casualty rates
    • 18 March 1944 - Rangi Logan writes to his parents
    • 27 March 1946 - AT Ngata writes to Judge Carr about a history of C Company
    • no date - Ben Rata writes home to his mother


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Their Stories

  • Māori Battalion diary - May 1943

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  • Māori Battalion diary - April 1943

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  • Māori Battalion diary - March 1943

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  • Tuakana Ngata writes home to his father, Sir Apirana

    Tuakana Ngata writes to his father Apirana
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  • Reverend Wiremu Panapa updates Sir Apirana Ngata on training of 2nd Maori Battalion at Taiamai

    W Panapa updates Ngata about training at Ohaeawai
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