Tuakanakore Whareraupo

Forenames

Tuakanakore AWMM

Surname

Whareraupo AWMM

Also known as

• Tuakana Kore AWMM
• Tuaka-nakore Wharerau-po AWMM
• Tuakana Kore Whareraupo AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/145 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

Dec 1894

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 February 2025 - Military Record

Place of birth

Makepe

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 February 2025 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Mrs. Te Whareraupo, of Te Waite, Rotoiti, Rotorua

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 February 2025 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

T. Whareraupo, Rotoiti, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/145 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Unknown AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuakanakore Whareraupo was the son of Mrs. Te Whareraupo, of Te Waite, Rotoiti, Rotorua

Name listed as Tuakana Kore by CWGC

Next of Kin: Mrs T. Whareraupo, Rotoiti, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

6 Aug 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Eldest of three sons of Whareraupo Papuni and Ani Tomairangi. Whareraupo died on 6 th August 2015 , the same night as his father’s youngest brother , Kurei Papuni also was killed. Neither have known graves
  Public - Georgina - Other relative - 11 August 2019 - Family history connected to a descendant of the youngest brother, Te Oneone Papuni and my own family oral history.

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22018140
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680513/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680513
  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

References

• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 770
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.