Hoani Ngamu Tamihana

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Hoani Ngamu AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Tamihana AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Hoani Ngamu AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/185 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1894

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 April 2024 - Military record

Wāhi Whānau

Te Ngae

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 April 2024 - Military record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Tamihana Tikitere and Turiata Hopaea, of Pukehina

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 April 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/hoani-ngamu

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 20 Oct 1914 AWMM Pukehina, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Tamihana Tikitere, Pukehina, Ohinepanea, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/185 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 20 Oct 1914 AWMM
Age  17 AWMM
Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 8.5 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  11 stone 6 pounds AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  brown AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  brown AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
1st Maori Contingent, B Company AWMM

Matenga

6 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Pte Hoani Ngamu TAMIHANA or TIKITERE) Killed in Action 6 August 1915. He was just 17 yrs when he enlisted. His grandfather was the Ngati Uenukukopako Chief Otimi TIKITERE

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 May 2024 - WHITIRIKI! WHITI!WHITI! E! by Monty Soutar - page 135

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Also named on the Te Arawa Soldiers' Memorial in the Government Gardens, Rotorua as Hoani Ngamu Pte.

Public - Pamela - Researcher - 17 February 2015 - Named on Te Arawa Soldiers' Memorial, and listed in Rotorua Chronicle 1927 souvenir programme of the Royal Visit to Rotorua.

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• 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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21380286
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130694.html
  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

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 538
• Auckland Weekly News
  Auckland Weekly News, 30 September 1915, p. 45 30 September 1915
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
  Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland: Reed. Page 41 reproduces the casualty portraits published in the Weekly News 1915.
• 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.
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.