Apu Tepuretu

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Apu AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Tepuretu AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1222 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1893 AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1895

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Wāhi Whānau

Rarotonga

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of TEPURETU of Avarua, Rarotonga

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Avarua, Rarotonga

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Uri kiritahi

WW1 Tepuretu (father), Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Battle of the Somme AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1222 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM Rarotongans, attached A Company AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Tepuretu and Miriama of Avarua, Rarotonga, Apu Tepuretu was the first Cook Islander killed in France. AWMM

Matenga

30 Sept 1916 BDM NZ1918/59601
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France AWMM II. H. 3. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7824919
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130790.html
  Further Reference
• Losirene Lacanivalu, 'WW1 soldier made ultimate sacrifice', Cook Islands News, 4 October 2016
  http://cookislandsnews.com/national/local/item/61036-ww1-soldier-made-ultimate-sacrifice/61036-ww1-soldier-made-ultimate-sacrifice
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/245604/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/245604
  Further Reference
• Manava Toa: the Cook Islands in WWI
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/stories/blog/2019/manava-toa-the-cook-islands-in-wwi?lang=en-nz
  Further Reference
• Pine, Madison. Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2019. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 11 December 2019
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/2019-online-cenotaph
  Further Reference
• Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
  https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  25: 2
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Information kindly provided by family
• This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands Military History Research Project
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.