Albert Paul Anaru

Title

Private

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Forenames

Albert Paul AWMM

Surname

Anaru AWMM

Also known as

Arapeta P ANARU

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Service number

WWI 16/1392 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

• Church of England, Christian AWMM
• Church of England
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Birth

3 May 1895 AWMM

Date of birth

3 May 1895

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Place of birth

Raukokore, Eastern BOP, NZ

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Birth notes

Son of Te Wika Anaru, of Rotorua

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Address before enlistment

Rotorua, NZ

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Next of kin

WW1 Te Wika Anaru (father), Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Messines AWMM
• Egyptian E F & Western European
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Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1392 AWMM

Military service

1916-1917

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Medals and Awards

British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 500212

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Enlistment

• WW1 Clerk AWMM
• 8 Feb 1916 at Narrow Neck, Takapuna
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Age on enlistment

21yrs

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Embarkation details

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Private AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Private Anaru was the son of Te Wika Anaru, of Rotorua

Next of Kin: Mr Te Wika Anaru, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery name

Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium

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Memorial name

Tikitiki Church's War Memorial
Opotiki's War Memorial

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Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22269845
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130569.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737600/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737600
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 26
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  New Zealand at the Front (1917), page 141
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.