Nikora Wharewhiti

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Nikora AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wharewhiti AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Nikora Wharewhiti AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19669 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

4th February 1894

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Wāhi Whānau

Waikato

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of MATENGA WHAREWHITI of Waiotapu, Rotorua i

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Uri kiritahi

Matenga Wharewhiti (father), Waiotapu, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19669 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Tuberculosis AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Nikora Wharewhiti was the son of Matenga Wharewhiti, Rotorua. Born at Waikato. Served on the Western Front, 1917-18.

Next of Kin: Mr M. Wharewhiti, Waiotapu, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

24 Jan 1919 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Auckland

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Te momo matenga

• Died of Disease AWMM
• Pulmonary Tuberculois
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Urupā

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Section 1, Block A, Lot 14. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Advice has been received by' Base Records Office that 19669, Nikora Wharewhiti, a returned undischarged soldier, died at the Auckland Hospital on January 24, from pulmonary tuberculosis. Deceased was 24 years of age and single, his next-of-kin being Matenga Wharewhiti (father) Waiotopu.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22018143
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643146/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643146
  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

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  62: 38
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917