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70 years ago this month
May 1942 the Battalion is still at Arsal in the Syrian foothills undertaking exercises and manoeuvres. Major Tiwi Love becomes the first Māori commander of the unit. Read the war diary for May 1942 here


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Joseph Andrew Berghan from Awanui
Tue, 30 November 2010 - 01:02pm
Joseph A. Berghan is listed in the N.Z.E.F. Casualties report of The Evening Post 22 February 1944. Click here to view full page.
Family records on the Andrija Kleskovich and Erina Kaaka Whanau website have William Joseph Andrew Berghan born 16 June 1920, whose mother is Annie May Berghan (nee Anderson) from Awanui. He is my father's first cousin. Annie May and my grandfather Joseph are siblings. - Te Awhi.