Tango Kokiri

Forenames

Tango AWMM

Surname

Kokiri AWMM

Service number

WWI 20598 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Anglican, Christian AWMM

Birth

16 Dec 1887 AWMM
Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 01 May 1916 AWMM Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Wiremu Kingi (brother), Ohinemutu, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 02 Apr 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

• Territorial Military Service AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 20598 AWMM

Military service

• Auckland Battalion, 6 (Hauraki) Regiment, D Company AWMM
• Cadet Corps AWMM

Military training

• Narrow Neck Camp AWMM
• Trentham Camp AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 01 May 1916 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM
Civil servant/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 80 AWMM Vessel was Corinthic AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 15th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 7.5 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  15 stone AWMM
• Dental, Unknown Period AWMM
  good AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died acute appendicitis and suppurative peritonitis AWMM

Last rank

Second Lieutenant AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Attended Te Aute College

Commissioned as Sergeant 6th Hauraki Regiment, 9 November 1916, gazetted, NZ Gazette No 135, 1 December 1916.

Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant gazetted, NZ Gazette, No. 47, 15 March 1917.

NOK, brother's name anglicised on the Nominal Roll to William King

Next of Kin: Mr W. K. Kotiri. Ohinimutu, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

21 Apr 1917 AWMM

Place of death

At Sea

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 July 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/tango-kokiri

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Death notes

Near the Falkland Islands. My late father, Tangonui (Tango) Falkland Kokiri Kingi was born on 29/11/1917, and named after his father's brother. He was also given the name Falkland to commemorate the nearest land mass to where his uncle had been buried at sea.

Public - Tarita - Other Relative - 27 April 2015 - Told to us by our father Tangonui (Tango) Kingi.

Obituary

• Obituary: Tiki Talk (troopship magazine), June, 1917. AWMM
• The Roll of Honour has claimed another from the players of the Rugby code in the person of Lieut. T. Kokiri, whose death was announced at the end of last week. "Tango," as he was familiarly known by all who knew him, left New Zealand in March in command of a draft of the Maori reinforcements, and his death from disease before he .could have reached his destination comes as a surprise to all. He was well known in Auckland in the Native Lands Court, and as a member of the Grammar Old Boys Club. A hefty player, with a powerful kick, he was a prominent figure at five-eighths for the Old Boys' senior team in 1915. Of a most genial disposition, he won the friendship of all he met, and at the Maori camp, where he was stationed for some time, he was one of the most popular officers of the establ»hment.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 July 2024 - OBSERVER, VOLUME XXXVII, ISSUE 38, 26 MAY 1917, PAGE 10

Memorial name

Te Arawa Soldiers' Memorial
Government Gardens
Rotorua
New Zealand

Public - Pamela - Researcher - 30 January 2015 - Research into Te Arawa Soldiers' Memorial; list of names in 1927 Rotorua Chronicle Souvenir Programme

Memorial name

• Auckland Provincial Memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand 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/R18058321
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880317
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130557.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643355/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643355
  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 Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 38
• HMNZT 80. Tiki-talk / edited by A. Allen, S.D. Waters and J. Carmody ; artist, Gordon Calman. (1917). London: Printed and published by the Angus Printing Co. for the executive committee of Tiki-talk.
  Obituary: Tiki Talk (troopship magazine), June, 1917.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Bartlett, W.H. (ca. 1914-1918) Maori soldier. Auckland War Memorial Museum call no. PH97/2 env6.10
• 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.