Pte Tinokura Tairea

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Surname
Tairea
First name(s)
Tinokura
Also known as
John
Rank
Pte
Corps
RNZIR
Service number
731184
Unit
Notes

Originally this roll confused him with 42420 - Pte Tairea Tairea

Disclaimer

The Vietnam List is an updated version of New Zealand's original Vietnam nominal roll – the Flinkenberg List – compiled by Captain Con Flinkenberg in 1972. Name, rank and unit information are from New Zealand military pay records. Read more about the Vietnam List.

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Submitted by DieppeBarracks on Wednesday, 2 August 2017 - 3:27pm

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This is NOT Tairea TAIREA-!!! this is Tinokura John TAIREA-!!

if you look at the x2 TAIREA - you will see you have named them both as Tairea-!!

https://www.facebook.com/ttairea?fref=nf

you can contact on FB above.

Onward

Stephen(Roscoe)Rosser - Dieppe Barracks Historian.

 

Submitted by Jamie Mackay on Monday, 14 August 2017 - 9:41am

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Hi Roscoe, thanks for this. I have contacted Jack Hayes who compiled the roll and he says the following: 

'Roscoe is partly correct. He cannot see the dates of birth but we can and that identifies clearly that these are two separate men.

A search of the NZDF database shows the following:

42420 Pte Tairea Tairea, RNZIR DOB (1.10.1943) served in V4.
731184 Pte Tinokura (aka John) Tairea , RNZIR DOB (19.10.1948) served in V6.

The name as given by Roscoe is not as recorded in the NZDF Database – ‘John’ is only used in later correspondence and his terminal dental files – his Personal files (PF, DPF and UPF) all list him as Tinokura Tairea. '

We will update our pages accordingly.