Hirini Taiwhanga

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Hirini AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Taiwhanga AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Hirini Taiwhanga AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/993 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

12th June 1888

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - Military Record

Wāhi Whānau

Piwhairangi

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hirini and Sarah Taiwhanga, of Te Ngae, Rotorua

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/hirini-taiwhanga

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Kennedy Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Nepa Taiwhanga (stepbrother), Tairua, Thames, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 18 Sep 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/993 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 18 Sep 1915-26 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 29 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 2nd Maori Contingent AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Hirini Taiwhanga was the son of Hirini and Sarah Taiwhanga, of Te Ngae, Rotorua.

Next of Kin: Mr W. Taiwhanga, Te Ngae, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

21 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM VI. B. 11. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• 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

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823605
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130765.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/165598/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/165598
  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.
  Page No: 709
• 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.