Henare Mete Kingi

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Henare AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Mete Kingi AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/385 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Wāhi Whānau

Wanganui

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/henare-mete-kingi

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hoani and Peeke Mete Kingi, of Putiki, Wanganui

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 November 2022 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/henare-mete-kingi

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Putiki, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Hoani Mete Kingi (father), Kaetahi, Putiki, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/385 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Signaller Henare Mete Kingi... was a son of a well-known Wanganui Chief, Hoani Mete Kingi. Cpl. Teira Mete Kingi, a younger son, was killed at Gallipoli. The two young men were grandsons of Mete Kingi Paetahi, the First Maori member elected to the House of Representatives. From Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F dated December 27, 1916 at page 209. AWMM

Matenga

14 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme France AWMM ID3 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

IN MEMORIAM.
METE KINGI. —In loving memory of our dear brother, Corporal Te Ina H. Mete Kingi, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 8th August, 1915; aged 28 years. He died for King and Country.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 September 2025 - Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15895, 14 August 1919, Page 4

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374856
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/548039/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/548039
  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

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 500
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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.