1. (personal name) (1919-1943) Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-a-Apanui; sportsman and soldier of the 28th Māori Battalion who was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for his bravery against the Germans in the Second World War when he was killed on 27 March 1943.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 183-184;)