Kiri Rapona
I whānau mai i te 1887 - I mate atu i te 29 Sept 1916
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/525 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) BattalionPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military Record
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
- PrivatePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military record
- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Kiri AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Rapona AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/525 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Pono
- Church of EnglandPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military Record
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 1887 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
- Mangatu, Whatatutu, near Te Karaka, GisbornePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military record
- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Pre 11 Jan 1915 AWMM Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Pita Rapona, Mangatu, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
- Brother - Pita Rapona of WhatatutuPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military record
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- Egyptian & Western EuropeanPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military Record
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) BattalionPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military Record
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/525 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- 1915-1916Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military Record
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- 1914-1915 Star
British War & Victory MedalsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military record
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 11 Jan 1915 AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
- 27yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Military record
- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- 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
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
"On 9 September, whilst on the Somme, Kiri Rapona received gun shot wounds to his head. His injuries necessitated immediate transfer to England. He died of his wounds on 29 September." (Church, p.61) AWMM - Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- "Private Kiri Rapona, 16/525, died at Brockenhurst." (Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F. October 16, 1916 p. 77)
"Initially Maoris were not allowed to fight with the rest of the New Zealand force and Kiri Rapona left Egypt on 5 April for Malta where he was posted for garrison duty. He embarked for Dardanelles on 30 June, and he was one of 477 men of the New Zealand Maori Contingent who arrived at Anzac on 3 July. They were attached to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and were sent to No.1 Outpost, which became known as the "Maori Pa". Their tasks entailed levelling terraces, digging roads and bringing water tanks ashore. By August the authorities had realised that the Maori would make excellent fighting soldiers so from then onwards they were placed on reserve to fight. In mid October Kiri Rapona was appointed as a Cook. The evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula began on 8 December and the Maoris were withdrawn to Imbros Island (fifteen miles away) and rested. Kiri Rapona fell ill on 27 December and sailed on the Huntsman from Mundros Harbour, Lemnos to Egypt for hospitalisation. In due course his unit reached the Western front." (Church, p.61)
Next of Kin: Mr P. Rapona, Whatatutu, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 29 Sept 1916 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
- 24yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/kiri-rapona
- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Died of wounds AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 5, Grave 8 AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Private Kiri Rapona, recently reported wounded, has since succumbed to his wounds. He was a Gisborne member of the Maori Contingent, and a son of Pita Rapona, Mangatu.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 3 June 2023 - ROLL OF HONOR.
GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLVII, ISSUE 4365, 9 OCTOBER 1916, PAGE 7 - Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Te Karaka War MemorialPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 23 September 2015 - Research
- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Gisborne War Memorial AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20804206
Further Reference - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130732.html
Further Reference - Website: No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/362607/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/362607
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
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 603 - Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.: Records of Matters Concerning the Troops and Gazette of Patriotic Effort [London, England] : New Zealand War Contingent Association, [1916-1919]
Chronicles of the NZEF, 16 October 1916, page 77 - New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
- 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.
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