Eruera Love
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eruera-love-168-14090600
title:
Eruera Love
text:
Eruera Te Whiti o Rongomai Love was a New Zealand rugby player, interpreter and military leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Ati Awa iwi. One of seven surviving children of Wi Hapi Pakau Love and Ripeka Wharawhara Love, he was born in Waikawa Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand on 18 May 1905. A Territorial officer, during the Second World War, he was a company commander and later battalion commander of the Māori Battalion. He was killed in action in the Western Desert on 12 July 1942.
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description:
New Zealand Army commander (1905–1942)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruera_Love
date created:
2012-02-03T05:29:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T07:25:18Z
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