Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Mikaera AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Te Moananui AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Mikaora Te Moananui AWMM
• Mikaera Te Moananui AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/477 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

19 Jun 1891 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Paeroa, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Tihitapu te Moananui (father), Paeroa, 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 16/477 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

• Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of disease AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 8" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  164 lb AWMM
• Pneumonia
  Public - Kiri Hiria - Other Relative - 17 June 2015 - /exlibris1/operational_shared//tmp/delivery/JpegViewerPreProcessor/10/55/33/72/1/REP10579431/FL10579447

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Matenga

6 Mar 1915 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Buried at Sea

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 November 2023 - Military record

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Pānui Matenga

CORPORAL # 16/477 MIKAERA TE MOANANUI
UNVEILING MONUMENT
TO THE MEMORY OF
CORPORAL MIKAERA TE MOANANUI.
INTERESTING CEREMONY,
An unveiling ceremony took place on Christmas Day at Taharua meeting house on Te Aroha Road, Paeroa, where a large crowd assembled. Mr G. Wickliffe, in a neat speech, welcomed those present. He said they had tnat day gathered together to unveil a monument to the memory of the late Corporal Mikaera Te Moananui (grandson of the late Meha Te Moananui), who died at sea while on his way to fight the Germans.
The ceremony took place at three o’clock.
Te Tihitapu Te Moananui, father of the deceased soldier, unveiling the memorial. The monument, made by Parkinson, of Auckland, is a fine piece of workmanship. The inscription in English on one side and in Maori on another, was:
"In loving memory
by the people of his tribe
for this lad, who died at sea
on the 6th day of March, in the year 1915
on his way to fight against Germany.
He is a Chief of his Tribe.
His name is
MIKAERA TE MOANANUI
aged 23.

Two enlarged photographs of the late Corporal Mikaera Te Moananui were placed on the monument, one in uniform and the other in his civilian clothes. The service was conducted by a Native lay reader, Mr Himiona Herawani, and consisted of the Maori translation of the hymn "For Ever with the Lord," the Lord's Prayer, followed by the collect for All Saint's Day. After the ceremony refreshments, supplied by the natives, were partaken of.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 November 2023 - OHINEMURI GAZETTE, VOLUME XXVIII, ISSUE 3863, 28 DECEMBER 1917, PAGE 2

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland Provincial Memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand 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/R7824812
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643371/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643371
  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
  Public - Kiri Hiria - Other Relative - 17 June 2015 - Mikaera Te Moananui

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 716
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• 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.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force (1914-1919)
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