Hemi (Himi) Wiremu was a Lieutenant in A Company. Hemi was educated at St Stephens and was later a member of staff teaching agriculture from 1931-1936. He then worked at the Forestry
Department in Rotorua working for the St John Ambulance Brigade. He started the 2nd Company of the Boys' Brigade at
Ōhinemutu, and was a lay reader at St Faith's Church.
He was caputred in Greece and spent four years as a prisoner of war in Germany.
In 1945 he was released, he went to London and spent a year at Bango University in North Wales doing a forestry course. He also met his english wife with whom he had three children (two sons and a daughter).
Hemi worked in farm management, and as a member of the voluntary civil police until 1963. He joined the staff of New Zealand House as Commissionaire.
See Te Ao Hou for more about Hemi.
Reference:
Text from Te Ao Hou, No 60, 1967, p.24.
Photo from newspaper article sent in by Jean Hooker, Pukekohe.
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