Rongo Mills

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Rongo AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Mills AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 47914 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

20 Nov 1895 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

20 Nov 1895

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Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne, NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Edward William & Pimia Mills

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Waikura Valley, Hangaroa, Gisborne

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Uri kiritahi

Mrs Pimia Mills (mother), Waikura Station, Hangaroa, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western European

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• 26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
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Nama Hōia

WWI 47914 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1917-1918

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

British War Medal
Victory Medal
Plaque & Scroll No. 509161

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Sheep farmer/Civilian AWMM
• 1 Mar 1917 at Gisborne
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

21yrs

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Jun 1917-16 Aug 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 85 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Matenga

5 Apr 1918 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Serre Road Cemetery No 1, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM II. D. 6. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Mrs Pimia Mills, of Waikura station, has been advised of the death of her only son. Private Rongo Mills, who has been killed in action. Private Mills was only 21 years of age, and before enlisting was managing Mrs Mills' station, proving himself a most capable young man. He left with the 26th reinforcements in June last, and was serving with the infantry. Mrs. Mills has received many messages of .sympathy in her sad loss

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Gisborne's War Memorial

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21375739
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/593722/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/593722
  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

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  66: 11
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• 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.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 85. The straggler's echo : an unreliable record of the 26th Reinforcements on board H.M. Troopship. [1917]. Capetown: Cape Times Printers.