Potene Tuhoro

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Potene AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Tuhoro AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Tuhora AWMM
• Potene Tuhoro AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/769 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1896 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Raniera Tuhoro of Rangitukia, Waiapu, East Coast

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 06 Jul 1915 AWMM Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Raniera Tuhoro (father), Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 18 Sep 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/769 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• School Cadet AWMM
• Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM
• 1915-1917
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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• Plaque & Scroll # 513315
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Whakangungu ope taua

School Cadets

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Te urunga

• WW1 06 Jul 1915 AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• 8 July 1915 at Takapuna (Narrow Neck Camp)
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

19yrs (other reports say he was only 17yrs)

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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

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  10 December 1915 admitted to the NZ General Hospital in Cairo suffering from enteritis AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  7 January 1916 enteritis was improving AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  11 January 1916 transferred NZ General Hospital, Alexandria AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  13 January 1916 Admitted to Admitted to a convalescent home ?? AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  14 January 1916 discharged to ??? AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  31 October 1916 Admitted 1st Casualty? Station AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  2 November 1916 Sent to No 1 General Hospital AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  4 November 1916 Admitted No 7 General Hospital, St Omer until 2 December 1916 then evacuated by Hospital Ship, St David for England AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  3 December 1916 admitted to 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  9 December 1916 reported with pneumonia AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  11 December 1916 tubercular peritonitis diagnosed AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  20 December and again 27 December 1916 at Brockenhurst and still seriously ill AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  8 January 1917 dangerously ill AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  13 January 1917 Died from tubercular peritonitis and buried three days later AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of tubercular peritonitis AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Matenga

13 Jan 1917 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Sickness AWMM

Urupā

Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 3, Grave 8 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Potene Tuhoro was just 17 years old when his soldier's journey brought him to Hampshire.

One day in early December, the hospital ship, St. David, steamed down Southampton Water to its waiting berth. Potene Tuhoro was amongst the seriously ill passengers on board, evacuated from the No. 7 General Hospital at St. Omer. As a member of the Maori Pioneer Battalion he had been posted in August 1916 to help construct communication trenches at the infamous Somme battle of Flers-Courcelette, in the vicinity of High Wood. By October, the associated horrors and intensity of trench warfare had made him seriously ill from debility which developed into tuberculosis and pneumonia.

His destination now was the small and idyllic New Forest town of Brockenhurst where the No.1 New Zealand General Hospital had established itself in June 1916. He most likely was carried by stretcher on to a waiting train at Southampton Docks and taken the short ride to Brockenhurst station, where an ambulance carried him the final few hundred yards to the hospital.

Here Potene Tuhoro saw out his last days, many thousands of miles from his New Zealand home, and cared for by staff from the New Zealand medical corp.

He died of tubercular peritonitis on 13th January 1916 and is buried at the Commonwealth War Grave at St. Nicholas, his ultimate sacrifice marked by a small white headstone engraved with the words: 'Private Potene Tuhoro. New Zealand Pioneer Battalion

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWeCJ-MyX4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Gisborne War Memorial AWMM
• St Mary's Church, Memorial Board, Tikitiki, near Rangitukia, East Coasts, New Zealand AWMM
• Tairawhiti Marae Gates, Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe and Tombs. Electronic version
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22013973
  Further Reference
• Portrait. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 43, 19 February 1917, Page 8
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19170219.2.56.11&srpos
  Further Reference
• Auckland War Memorial Museum. Web pages. "In Memory". Eruera Kawhia and Potene Tuhoro
  http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=832
  Further Reference
• Website: No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  Further Reference
• Potene Tuhoro feature, Hampshire Big Theme, Hampshire County Council
  http://www3.hants.gov.uk/1914/1914-features.htm?id=193
  Further Reference
• 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/362621/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/362621
  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

• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 736
• New Zealand Gazette
  Ko te Kahiti o Niu Tireni : The New Zealand gazette; official government gazette for Maori
• Carkeek, R. (2003). Home little Maori home : a memoir of the Maori contingent 1914-1916. Wellington, N.Z.: Totika Publications.
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.