Rikihana Wharewhiti

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Rikihana AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wharewhiti AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Rikihana Wharewiti AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19726 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

29th February 1897

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 October 2024 - Military record

Wāhi Whānau

Waiotapu

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 October 2024 - Military record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Wharewhiti MATENGA of Waiotapu, Rotorua

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 October 2024 - Military record

Uri kiritahi

• Wharewhiti Matenga (father), Waiotapu, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM
• later - c/- W. NGAIHI of Fernhill, Hawkes Bay
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 October 2024 - Military record

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 October 2024 - Military record

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19726 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Jul 1917-16 Sep 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 88 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Private AWMM 19th 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

Son of Matenga Wharewhiti. Native of Waiotapu, New Zealand.

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

Matenga

28 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England AWMM II. B. 1. AWMM

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/R22018144
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/399733/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/399733
  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.
  68: 16
• 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)
• 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.