Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu in 1940. Ngārimu was the first Māori soldier to win the Victoria Cross (VC). He and Willie Apiata (2007) are the only Māori to have won the VC serving with New Zealand forces.
The first VC winner of Māori descent, William Rhodes-Moorhouse (1915), earned his award flying with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.
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Second World War - overview
Māori and the Second World War
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Events
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30 April 1917
William Sanders wins New Zealand's only naval VC
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24 May 1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
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15 October 1942
NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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7 June 1940
Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
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28 April 1941
Jack Hinton wins the Victoria Cross
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24 April 1941
Sinking of the Hellas
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2 October 1941
NZ pilot saves Scottish village
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19 December 1941
HMS Neptune lost in Mediterranean minefield
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13 December 1939
Battle of the River Plate
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19 August 1944
Kiwi pilot's sacrifice saves French village
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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20 May 1941
German paratroops assault Crete
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11 November 1942
Troopship Awatea goes down fighting
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14 May 1941
NZ minesweeper sunk off Bream Head
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15 March 1944
NZ forces capture Castle Hill at Cassino
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26 April 1943
NZ ship torpedoed in Tasman
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23 February 1940
100,000 welcome home HMS Achilles crew
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28 January 1901
Hardham wins VC in South Africa
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9 May 1945
NZ celebrates Victory in Europe
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12 June 1942
First US troops arrive in Auckland
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19 June 1940
Niagara sunk by German mines off Northland
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15 August 1945
The war is over! VJ Day
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16 August 1944
CORSO formed
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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3 September 1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
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5 September 1939
PM declares NZ's support for Britain
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27 October 1943
NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
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2 November 1942
NZ Division helps Allies break through at El Alamein
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22 November 1939
Freyberg takes command of NZ Expeditionary Force
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8 December 1941
New Zealand declares war on Japan
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29 March 1942
Nazi sabotage hoax
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11 May 1945
Upham presented with VC
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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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21 January 1944
NZ and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
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25 February 1943
49 killed in Featherston POW incident
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17 December 1944
Major Major, mascot of 19 Battalion, dies of sickness
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7 March 1941
NZ troops arrive in Greece
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11 February 1864
Charles Heaphy earns VC
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19 March 1946
Main body of Jayforce lands in Japan
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10 March 1869
New Zealand Cross created
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3 April 1943
'Battle of Manners Street'
Biographies
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William Sanders
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Howard Kippenberger
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Walter Callaway
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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Samuel Frickleton
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Charles Heaphy
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Charles Upham
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Kitty Kain
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Bernard Freyberg
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Geoffrey Cox
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Michael Joseph Savage
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Peter Fraser
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Hēni Materoa Carroll
Articles
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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HMNZS Leander
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The Second World War at home
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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New Zealand and the Victoria Cross
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Māori units of the NZEF
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Battle of the River Plate
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Military mascots
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Māori and the Second World War
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Conscientious objection and dissent
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Second World War - overview
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War in the Pacific
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Māori and the First World War
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VE and VJ days
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Māori War Effort Organisation
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D-Day
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The Italian Campaign
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The Merchant Navy
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The North African Campaign
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Prisoners of War
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US Forces in New Zealand
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The Battle for Crete
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